Guild Wars 2

clay.7849:

Behellagh.1468:

Gab Superstar.4059:

Commercially it is doing well.

But it had to sacrifice manifesto, the credibility of the developers, and the experience of the players to achieve it.

This is getting old. How did they sacrifice the manifesto?

Have you read it?

they did not sacrifice any manifesto, credibility, and the only experience sacrificed was with the wvw ranks not being rolled back, but then everyone starts off the same so everyone is encouraged to do lots of wvw to attempt to get their wvw rank up, so it attracts more to wvw, so it is ok that they did that. sacrificing manifesto, and sacrificing credibility, is an OPINION, and ALWAYS will be, it will NEVER be a FACT. get over it clay, its your opinion and we all know yourn entitled to it, but you are not entitled to genralize the entire playerbase to fit your every whim. that is a privelage of the devs, and you will never be a dev with your attitude.

Flubble.8093:

-snip-or diving off the side of the city

i rez those ppl. one time i got enough ppl that i went and got a super adventure box o’ fun and we had a party:D

you must own the keep to use the portal i think,

Skar Hand.5037:

Demeron.5423:

My Dead Characters.9517:

you be fibbing m8, noone is gonna put that much in the forgem and you cant make that much money inn game without buying gold like CRAZY, but if you not helpign the goldsellers, then you must buy gems. to buy that many gems, you are going to go broke over a freaking game, unless you are a millionaire. so are you rich? cause if you are, i could use a few hunred gold for my precious juggernaught.

clearly u have no clue about anything with 5 lv 80’s (now was 4) all farming every day and also guesting servers for more Ore Each the amount of ore u can pull in is unreal also waiting a couple hr’s well once u finish running all ur toons all the mithril and Cy wood is respawned by then so then u just run it agine it’s just never ending circle u keep running but ok mr. Know it all u clearly know nothing or only have 1 80 to farm on im guessing lol

Presuming you can get from node to node in 15 second without ever getting hung up, and that each swing of the pick/axe takes 1 second each, that would mean 18 seconds per node (3 materials).

As stated above, it would take 9600 ore and 4800 wood to craft that many rares. That is a total of 14400 mats, or 4800 nodes. 18 sec per node x 4800 = 86400 seconds = 1440 minutes = 24 hours. I presume that you kill 2-3 mobs during the 15 seconds from node to node to get you the thousand of T5 mats you need.

As plausible as this sounds, I would recommend you take a break bro and get some rest. It is unhealthy to play that much every day.

i love math, thank you.

LOL that sucks. did you get your chest?

the skins from the gem store? no. anything else? yes.

you be fibbing m8, noone is gonna put that much in the forgem and you cant make that much money inn game without buying gold like CRAZY, but if you not helpign the goldsellers, then you must buy gems. to buy that many gems, you are going to go broke over a freaking game, unless you are a millionaire. so are you rich? cause if you are, i could use a few hunred gold for my precious juggernaught.

dont tell them our secrets!!!!

its edited so its on topic.

sorry, apparently making the post how awesome john smith is #2 post was violating rules, so we cant post how awesome our econimic trend monitoring friend is, but he knows it now at least, so that is something! we got like 50+ posts on it, plus there was another one i believe,so he knows how awesome he is!!!! also, econimic trend monitoring friend, so this is on topic, what do you predict the ecto price will be by the end of this month?

cesmode.4257:

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Then, and it always circles back to this, the November 15th patch came out and we have stat increases. Suddenly, the mood in the game shifts. Now, with daily’s actually rewarding something measurable, laurels, the innate human nature that a lot of people have compells us to log in and complete the daily. With all of my dungeon farming for exotics done, with farming fractals to 20-25 done, with getting one character fully ascended(up to this point), the only thing I have left TO do is farm some dragons at the chance of a legendary, and complete the mundane daily tasks for laurels to keep up. I log off quickly after that. If there were no laurels attached, to be honest my mindset might change a bit…for the better.
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umm, dailies never gave laurels till jan 28th, MUCH later than the november patch. november patch gave us DR if im not mistaken.

Master of Timespace.2548:

chronometria.3708:

Golems are awkward, delicate and only function well when used in numbers. They are most effective when used in surprise attack and after that they often get dumped in a keep somewhere and forgotten, due to the impractical nature of their use.

They also function as a way of breaking stalemates where everything is fully upgraded and foot slogging just ends in death and frustration.

I would say that they are fine and the general opinion I see when golems bash something in is that if people wish to spend that much cash on an attack, then they deserve to see success.

Yeah. And personally I think they should sell a “Royal authority parchament” in the item mall. This item would immeditately claim any single building in the map to your world. It would cost a lots of gems, but if people wish to spend that much cash to capture a building, they deserve to see success.

no, SM would get traded every few minutes, N O !!!!!

if there is a golem coming, if you have 30 seconds and 9 people you can kill them at a TOWER with REGULAR arrow carts. if you need proof well, here ya go:

umm, what exactly happened? you lost upgrades? how? is it a glitch or did you get your keep taken while you were gone then retook the keep? you said nothing wrong with the system just said something needs to be fixed without naming what needs fixing

i know EXACTLY how i would fix meta events. there would be multiple things that could happen in the event, depending on a combination of other events on the map, number of players on the map, number of players in immediate area, and RNG. for example, if the troll and wasp events were up in queensdale and there was 5-10 players, an undead champion troll would spawn, or an undead champion queen wasp with baby wasp adds, neither of which drop a chest, if there were 10-20 people the troll/ wasp would be legendary quality and drop a chest. if there were 30-40 people on the map(not nessacarily in immediate area) there would be both troll and wasp. if both troll and wasp events are done and there are 5-10 people shadow behemoth spawns. if there are 10-20 people a champion Aataxe appears and there is a chest, and if there are 30-40 people on map there would be a legendary Aataxe with shade adds. these numbers are made up and would be adjusted to match the actual numbers that would be appropriate. would you go with my idea or do you have another proposition?

since my last post was moved, im making this one not a suggestion but rather a poll
what are your thoughts on there being varying meta events, so we arent doing the same events all the time. this could take into account other events around the map, could have an RNG factor to it, and could take into account how many players did the previous event in the chain. for example, if the wasp is up in queensdale and the troll is up, instead of shadow behemoth spawning it will be a legendary aataxe. if the dredge are up in frostgorge sound, then it instead spawns a metal dragon powered by a champion dredge powersuit and guarded by many veteran dredge. (note these are just examples). so yes or no on varying events? and why you think so would be nice.

back to the original question, do you think that world events should vary if they can work the bugs out?

it would be kind of like the paths for dungeons except it would be up to chance, instead of player choice. some of the events could be more rare to occur than others, or they could be determined by the other events on the map being done or not. fights like the dragon fights and shadow behemoth and destroyer need vareity in my opinion, would help keep the game alive

what if there was different events that could happen in those big meta events, each with a different boss? it would add a lot fo variation to those events. also, for those people that like to hunt for skins, they could introduce new skins tied to those new bosses. of course, how to introduce this could be living stories, if they started more of these at once it would be good.

to clarify, this was reset night. sorry for any confusion WvW guild. i was talking about reset night when tribio and i did the charge in arborstones BL. very very very sorry about the confusion.

wow, just wow. you generalized the entire world versus world community to your exact thought. FAIL.i love wvw, zergs are crap tactics on the bottom tier of eu, one team nailed arborstone’s zerg in EB, while my group went and capped arbor’s BL. culling is nonexistent if you have a medium performance computer. commanders arent too many of them, the ones that suck dont turn tags on and if they do they turn it off when we ask them. we have multiple commanders on a map? good, helps the noobs split up and gives a better chance of taking more stuff at once. come to FOW bro, its the life over here, just make sure to ignore a certain commander(cant name her, rules) but youll know who im talking about when you see her. she is good at commanding except when shes talking about how bad we are and how were sick little kids, and then she gets jumped by the whole server while i politly ask her to leave. lol.

had fun last night wiping your zergs at our keep in EB several times! i heard you guys had given up on wvw, but arbor stone has a really big zerg! if you guys had big wvw guilds and were WAY more organized we wouldnt have wiped you, btu rather been at a stalemate. i led the charge in your Borderlands btw, thanks for the free keeps since you were all on EB. and when you finally came and wiped us at your BL we went back to EB adn took back our keeps and have held it for so long now! been having fun in wvvw most i ever had! ( might also have something to do with the fact that last night i finally got commander)

Toubzsky.6087:

Something is wrong here.

When i see this http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/3533/justlol.jpg it seem that Desolation and Seafarer are one server, so how come you can’t complete the map ?

that is what is called a cross server alliance.

Cierdwyn.4675:

You stated above that you ‘only WvW’ …

“Zorac.1723: Sorry but wrong.

3) I only WvW, monthly/daily are supposed to be able to be done while I play, this cannot be"

IF you dislike PvE so much there ARE other ways of getting Ascended gear .. like actually running Fractals dungeons. Jumping daily/monthly PvE hoops for Laurels to get Ascended anything seems counter to doing what you enjoy. It is not as if this requirement (crafting this time) was added to the PvP monthly.

Don’t fall back on the ol’ I only WvW/PvP and then complain about not being able to get something that is attainable via effort in the PvE world. I never complained about the WvW requirement .. I just said ‘nope .. not gonna happen’ and stuck with my dailies. I did kvetch a lot about dungeons though .. I just kept it to this side of my keyboard. hehe

I never thought I’d see the day that I would say this .. but .. seriously .. I kinda like running a Fractals set .. you might too AND you build up the tokens pretty quickly. And I am offering this suggestion in the nicest way I can.

fractals= another form of PvE. dumb argument cierdwyn. if something is PvE obviously, why do you suggest it when our friend Zorac specifically said he/she ONLY DOES WVW/PVP. anything that is not pvp is pve.

there are always things that arent liquid currency, i invest in potions,although i use them so much i usually dont sell em back. i got endless toymakers tonic, cold hard and warm potions, and im working on getting a charged potion.

need an answer from devs, noone is gonna try this until we have a confirmed answer from devs.

you realize the jp has trap MADE FOR CAMPERS!!!!! they want it to be camped. nothing new here, move along people.

i bet its just our luck that it is the gift of light.

per day per character, but there have been some bugs.

a better idea would be to go back from where jeffrey said it was mentioned on this thread and list all of those before it

i see ppl hacking to be poofed inside towers and keeps with a mes then telling the rest to come and use the portal, if you know there is no way they could be in that keep without hacking, and you knowingly use that portal anyways, that is tantamount to an exploit! your just as bad as the hackers themselves then!

pulsecodesgnl.3470:

My Dead Characters.9517:

OMFG ALL THE OTHER SERVERS WOULD BE WORSE THAN SF!!!!! there is a reason SF is in T8.

ThaOwner.7560:

while this is quite unfortunate for t8 i dont think you guys will fare much better against any of the servers in t7, honestly if you care about WvW that much, i dont think t8 is the place for you at this point

These kind of posts show you guys clearly have no understanding of what the situation is, how the scoring system is detrimental, and instead have some misguided notion that the system is behaving correctly for the benefit of everyone.

We have a very established guild on our server, many actives and many casuals, there is no way we are going to migrate 200-300 accounts to a new server when the transfer fees are expensive as they are. Beyond that, because of the way guild’s are currently structured, we would lose our hundreds of thousands of built up influence, existing upgrades and bonuses that our guild has earned over the past 6 months.

Moving is not an option.

Months ago we landed in tier 8, and at that time we relatively deserved to land in there, as I have posted many times before we have had our PvE playerbase come back from events (Wintersday), several transfers from higher tiers, and co-ordinated Commanders / Guilds for tactics ON TOP of having excess numbers for zergs.

We have improved, A LOT. Our WvW guilds are growing bored again, and are suffering because of the scoring system. Because of the balance in the higher tiers, servers have a chance to bounce back and forth and be tested amongst other tiers.

Getting thrown in Tier 8 against two undermanned/underpowered servers sucks the availability for progress which is what the ranking system is dependant on. When we completely wipe the floor with these two tiers our score goes up a negligible amount, if for some reason they decide to put any kind of a fight, and instead of winning them by a vast majority, we win by an average majority we lose a significant amount of points that prevent us from having the same ‘chance’ that higher tiers have.

You can say things are fine all you want, and argue about whether SF would do fine in higher tiers, the reality is though, we do not have the opportunity to prove that. Unless something dramatic happens in the higher tiers, we are stuck here for what appears to be more months on end, despite the months we’ve already been here.

so what if you improved? that DOES NOT MEAN that noone else did. SF probably had the same amount or less of transfers. maybe if you used, dare i say it, STRATEGY, you could take stuff. maybe never will you take SM, but you will make a difference. taking a keep by hitting 2 entrances with trebs while secretly pounding down a third entrance is GREAT fun.

EDIT: PS, im in T8 in euro servers, were getting roflstomped by blacktide, but WE STILL GET KEEPS! how? STRATEGY!!!!!(and our lord flame ram)

OMFG ALL THE OTHER SERVERS WOULD BE WORSE THAN SF!!!!! there is a reason SF is in T8.

id be warrior, super buff and have a big kitten sword? all the ladys swooning over me? plus heavy duty armor that let me survive another warrior? and a rifle shot that pierces throw ppl and insta kills them? having a mesmer friend to give me quickness for gaming faster than the game goes? AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!

Mesket.5728:

SET.3275:

Age … cant check it now, probably over 1000 hrs. 3700 achievement points, while some of my friends have 5k, but no precursor neither want any. There is dungeons i have never been in. In the same time there is dungeons i’ve been more than i need – i have like 500 arah tokens in the bank (and i spent 1.5k more for the gift, daggers and equipment). I havent killed simin still, but i’m always up for path 4.
Did i mentioned i’m not using my Bifrost? It have kittening stats and knowing what it cost me i dont want to transmute it.

This is what I mean, not trying to point a finger at you; besides your particular case is not that bad, but some players sports legendaries only doing COF and AC (less than 3K achievement points as well).- How can that player be a “Truly Master of Tyria!”?

It’s either re-do the whole legendary way of getting them (lol, dreaming is free right?) or cut the lies and just say they represent gold mining players and not players who completed the game content.

BTW, I think you can transmute it now and keep Legendary status of the item,

NOOOO DO NOT TRANSMUTE YOUR LEGENDARY. YOU LOSE LEGENDARY STATUS. DO NOT DO THIS EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Protoavis.9107:

Riss.1536:

Wasabi Kitty.8247:

Riss.1536:

The problem is more about the Black Lion Kit. Why the hell would I buy one at the gems store if I often salvage and get between 0 and 1 ecto ? (more often 0…). Prefer not buying and selling yellows to the market. Seriously up the kit to 75%.

Rate is around 0.8 to 0.9 ectos per salvage, so if it was 75% then you’d get even less ectos.

Currently, master kit has a 25% chance of having rare mats. Black Lion Kit has 50% chance. I want a up to 75%, that’s what I meant so I don’t think you would have less by upping the kit. Otherwise, it’s better to directly buy the ectos than to buy gems or use gold for the black lion kit.

Then I must be the most lucky person with my approx 9 ecto’s per 10 salvages.

nope, cause its 25% 3 times, 3 for each ecto possiblee in a rare, and 25% 5 times for exotics, 1 for each ecto. if it truely was 25%, the mechanic would most definitly be broken.

lemme get this straight, you want pvp rewards for doing pve? get out of the jp and do real pvp, or do pvp to get the badges for your legendary. dont say its not for legendary, noone want badges for the armor and you get more siege from jsut playing wvw.

wow, if i had a legendary for everyone of these stupid posts, id control the entire market by now

i was comparing it to /say, which doesnt broadcast to the entire map, just the immediate area.

/m makes it red, and it says it to everyone on that map, not just ppl in the immediate area

the server activity has nothign to do with wvw, but rather with total player in both wvw AND PVE therefore, it means there is a high population of pve-ers on SF, not a super high population of wvw-ers only.

and alll the other server have more than sorrows, that is why they are in higher tiers!!!! they wouldnt be able to survive in a higher tier if they didnt have the numbers!!!! you obviously need to think before you post.

fix what? fergs is bottom tier, if arenanet replaced sorrows with another serveer it would be even WORSE! do you even think about what you are saying? seriously, you have no idea what you are asking for! besides, your asking another matchup to be utterly destroyed so you can have your way? HECK NO!!!!

best: Eternal Battlegrounds
(i can get off of the map here, so fun to do that.
2nd best: mount maelstrom( i can get off of the map here, so fun to do)
3rd best: cursed shore(so many trees to climb that let me get off the map)
4th best: cadecous’ manor( i love the secret room off the map here

edit: PS: I LOVE OFF THE MAP AREAS!!!! WOOT!!!!

eventually, you will capture all places at least once, especially if you go with you guild on raids, take 1 new place in green Borderlands a week, and youll get it soon enough. only real problem is how badly ppl want SM

Valenthor.4052:

Some MF defender please tell me how is it any better than someone rolling in all blues and asking to be carried? And don’t tell me that you would be okay carrying them because we all know that is a flat out lie, as soon as you wipe once. And before you get all excited, I am fully aware you can wear MF and not wipe. Speed becomes important as soon as people know the routine and just farm it for whatever. And guess what? Every number matters when you want speed. I feel like, all of a sudden, people want to change decades of common gaming etiquette because the shinnies are too tempting. In what other game is it okay and accepted to not be trying your best for pure greed? Apparently someone trolling your dungeon with purposely done lesser gear (for his own personal lawls) should be accepted because that is the path some of you suggest is okay.

bolded non constructive part and italicized the extreme that you go to, wearing mf gear doesnt make you equal to lesser gear. but dont drag me into this war between you and tobias pls valenthor

this thread is no longer inviting constructive critisism. Moderators, please close this thread as it is just a “blah blah blah mean comment mean comment” "blah blah blah mean comment mean comment. im looking at you tobias and valenthor>.>

gimmethegepgun.1284:

My Dead Characters.9517:

Saturn.6591:

Jackums.3496:

wintermute.4096:

travosaga.6089:

These stats work with a necro who will have the train that gives a 66% chance to apply a bleed on crit. It’s perfect actually. More chance to crit which means greater chance to apply additional bleeds which do more damage from the condition damage. I guess it depends on your class.

Well actually… That doesn’t even come close to what power builds get out of it, because condition builds lack something comparable to the crit damage stat.
That trait for example is 66% chance to proc, which only works if you actually crit, for 1 whole second of bleed. Given your average attack rate, that is almost unnoticable.
Power builds on the other hand, can get over 100% bonus damage of any given attack if they crit, no strings attached…

Direct damage doesn’t ignore armour, protection, and invulnerability.

There most certainly are strings attached.

What you’re saying is so… wrong, that I just had to log in and reply. Even if the chance to get the bleeding on a critical hit would be 100%, one second of one stack of bleeding would maybe add around 100 damage to this hit. If your opponent is invulnerable, the hit will not do anything and thus it can also not crit and you get no bleeding on it. Actually, as far as I know, you can not APPLY any conditions on someone who’s invulnerable (at least not with weapon-skills). Those conditions that are already in effect continue to tick, though. However, 1 second is going away almost instantly, so there will not be a single stack of bleeding from this trait while someone’s invulnerable.

sorry, but this is absolutly wrong, i must comment. conditions can be applied no matter what buff you have on, take a look at riteous indignation for one. people kill the supply camp lord with conditions while he has his buff up. if you can deal out a good bit of base dmg and still put on loads of conditions you can get them low enough and run away while conditions finish the job. in pvp conditions can down your opponetn while your down, so you can turn the tables and kil them! now tell me conditions arent good. i dare you.

Actually, no, they can’t be applied when you can’t hit the target. If they’re using an evade or block move then you can’t apply them because you have to actually hit them. Righteous Indignation doesn’t keep you from hitting them, it just insanely reduces damage and condition duration on them.
And if you were direct damage you could’ve killed them in that same number of hits without having to run away at all.
And direct would have downed that person before you got downed at all, which gives you even more of an advantage.

apparently i play too much wvw, cause the main invulnerability i deal with is riteous indignation, i dont typically notice other invulnerability buffs, sorry bout that.

Saturn.6591:

Jackums.3496:

wintermute.4096:

travosaga.6089:

These stats work with a necro who will have the train that gives a 66% chance to apply a bleed on crit. It’s perfect actually. More chance to crit which means greater chance to apply additional bleeds which do more damage from the condition damage. I guess it depends on your class.

Well actually… That doesn’t even come close to what power builds get out of it, because condition builds lack something comparable to the crit damage stat.
That trait for example is 66% chance to proc, which only works if you actually crit, for 1 whole second of bleed. Given your average attack rate, that is almost unnoticable.
Power builds on the other hand, can get over 100% bonus damage of any given attack if they crit, no strings attached…

Direct damage doesn’t ignore armour, protection, and invulnerability.

There most certainly are strings attached.

What you’re saying is so… wrong, that I just had to log in and reply. Even if the chance to get the bleeding on a critical hit would be 100%, one second of one stack of bleeding would maybe add around 100 damage to this hit. If your opponent is invulnerable, the hit will not do anything and thus it can also not crit and you get no bleeding on it. Actually, as far as I know, you can not APPLY any conditions on someone who’s invulnerable (at least not with weapon-skills). Those conditions that are already in effect continue to tick, though. However, 1 second is going away almost instantly, so there will not be a single stack of bleeding from this trait while someone’s invulnerable.

sorry, but this is absolutly wrong, i must comment. conditions can be applied no matter what buff you have on, take a look at riteous indignation for one. people kill the supply camp lord with conditions while he has his buff up. if you can deal out a good bit of base dmg and still put on loads of conditions you can get them low enough and run away while conditions finish the job. in pvp conditions can down your opponetn while your down, so you can turn the tables and kil them! now tell me conditions arent good. i dare you.

rng is rng, might get lucky might not