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if you’re going with all stats, just go with divinity runes. i wouldn’t bother with celestial on mesmer but if you want to try, DO IT
This could be the only useful thing about spvp, leveling characters by doing something something called PLAYING THE GAME instead of standing near a crafting station like a kitten and craft your way to 80 (what a pathetic way to level up… must be one of the worst seen in an mmo to date)
Fixing thief 101
1- Increase HS initiatives to 4 (don’t remove its leap finisher as some suggested cuz that’s too much). This isn’t just for BP/HS spam but also for spam itself.
2- CnD initiatives increased to 7, can’t CnD on pets (clones and of that crap), damage decrease to spvp level.
3- Black Powder- you can only apply stealth once per black powder (3sec and 4sec if traited), stealth not stackable.
4- When attacking from stealth and the attack is missed/blocked, it should apply reveal and this goes to all classes
5- (cry me a river about this one, bro) Give a 5sec reveal after attacking from stealth, give a 1sec reveal after stealth ends even if not attacking from stealth.
No cries about thieves anymore and only baddies that can’t play their own class will come here to complain.
I kind of agree with some of the stuff in this thread. I run glass cannon engineer 100% of the time, and I will by no means claim to be an expert on thieves. With that being said, I do just as much damage as a thief however in a 1 v 1 situation they have a 100% advantage because they will always have the option to use stealth to open and stealth to escape. Have I beaten bad thieves? Absolutely, I’ve instagibbed so many with a magnetpull/grenade barrage/jumpshot combo that I could not even begin to count.
However you know what happens when a good thief comes at me? He basically spams stealth and constantly resets the fight until he gets his burst rotation perfect and kills me. The funny thing is you cannot possibly chase one down, as they have the best mobility in the game. My point is this…. can other classes go full glass and do the same damage as a thief? Sure, but we don’t get the same get of jail free card which is bullcrap and anyone saying it isn’t is full of it.
its called a free gtfo card and the reason why 8/10 solo roamers you’ll find are thieves.
Its all i use in spvp since launch. Phase Retreat too good for pvp and illusions are more spammable on GS for ranged and close range shatters. With staff you have awesome combat mobility and defense. With GS you have great ranged dps, combine the two and its a pure winner.
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Wouldn’t this decrease lag on servers? Not only that but it’ll make ppl care about their bloodlust stacks instead of mob rushing with 25stacks, dying and rebuilding them in 3 minutes. Like, do we really need pve mobs in a pvp zone? The only AI there should be are guards/lords and such, not doe’s and moa’s.
From all the events they’ve had, Halloween is the only one i enjoyed. Am i excited for their new October happy festival? No. Happy festivals is all i’ve been eating all year from their bs LS
Can i name two? Cuz they go a little bit too well together. Skull Crack+100swag. Like what is the point of even having any other skills on GS and mace when your whole damage comes from a single skill like 100swag? On other classes you may be able to stun for 3sec and i say may cuz not even all classes can and have an extremely long CD on the stun. On war you get a 3sec stun per wut? 10sec or less? combine this with 100swag (the only thing you need on a stunned enemy while on other classes you need to use a bunch of skills to get even close to 100swag damage) and we get a lol combo by excellence. Of course there’s some other cheese like S/D but nothing comes close to healing sig/skull crack+shield bash/100swag spammers.
If your dieing to 100 blades as a thief, then you have a lot of problems.
first of i don’t play a thief and why is it every single time i write something in spvp section people always think the person (me in this case) is doing it to QQ because i die against it… Every single time lol its getting pretty funny. I don’t have any problems against stun warriors because Phase Retreat alone in a shatter build is a hard counter to SC/100swags spammers and mesmer is all i play, im just saying how stupid the combo can be against an engi, nec, ranger for example. Even on a thief, if you shadow refuge and run away then suuuuure you won’t die but if you keep the fight going you will lose large majority of the times.
Can i name two? Cuz they go a little bit too well together. Skull Crack+100swag. Like what is the point of even having any other skills on GS and mace when your whole damage comes from a single skill like 100swag? On other classes you may be able to stun for 3sec and i say may cuz not even all classes can and have an extremely long CD on the stun. On war you get a 3sec stun per wut? 10sec or less? combine this with 100swag (the only thing you need on a stunned enemy while on other classes you need to use a bunch of skills to get even close to 100swag damage) and we get a lol combo by excellence. Of course there’s some other cheese like S/D but nothing comes close to healing sig/skull crack+shield bash/100swag spammers.
Charr necro ewwwwwwwww
Most fun is memser. Worst and the most boring by faaaaaaaaaaaaar is Necro.
Their current team is pretty weak when it comes to adding content with true longevity so they have no choice but time gate people and make them waste days/weeks on old content.
You’re doing what im for the passed,,,, since like January. The problem is that when you do that, ignore their crappy “get these 150 achievements for this month while wp across the map and talk to 278 npcs” there’s nothing new for you to do. With every patch i ignore their garbage LS and the achievements that come with it so im essentially playing vanilla version of gw2 which is perfectly fine but when you’ve been doing it for a year its getting old. Currently doing teq and laughing at how poor its reward is but since there’s nothing else to do, im still doing it cuz, well, there’s nothing else in the whole game.
you know gw2 feels like one of those games that devs stopped supporting cuz its so old and not enough players are playing it to be worth adding new content. Its really sad that their biggest content of the year is a revamped Teq with three new attack animations and 2 trillion more HP with a 15 minutes timer.
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its printing them money, lengendaries will not be going back as acc bound
i agree but then why did i spend money on my ascended GS? Its certainly not for the fugly skin with ps2 quality texturing…
Pistol. Was GS back when iZerker was a guaranteed 4k+ damage and had no delays on attack but now its kinda meh.
They will be forced to do it because more n more people lose interest in their game that goes nowhere.
I was for over a month. Was tired of seeing so many ppl use it in wvw so i bought a set three days ago and pretty much any other condi runes are completely irrelevant for mez. They’re so OP that the person who thought this is a good idea must’ve been —-— Were they even thinking for half a sec when creating these?
With food you can apply 5stacks of aoe confusion for 18-20sec from a single temporal curtain rofl
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i have 12k fractal relics and ~230 prestine relics, DO WANT. They need to do something with the useless fotm currency anyways
What a surprise, duelist and swordsman are the highest DPS.
But iZerker is good guys, I swear.
/rolls eyes
what are you trying to say here? isword/iduelist are both single target when izerker is aoe AND applies cripple….
At this point no1 but Vayne is happy with the direction gw2 is taking. For casuals its getting too grindy, for ‘hardcore’ audience there’s absolutely nothing to do but wvw (who the F wastes time on old boring dungeons to gain 1g per run lolz). So, anet, what’s up? Where you going with this game? Can i please have my original gw1 team back and send the current team to build Zerg Wars 2: Facebook Edition?
No one but Vayne is happy with the direction this game is taking. Really? No one. How about Vayne’s wife. There’s two right there. Immediately, you’re mistaken. What about some of Vayne’s guildies. We do have 120 people in the guild and most of them seem to be happy with the game.
What you’re really saying is players who want what you want aren’t happy. Players who want very specific things may not be happy. But for people who do a bit of everything, I’m not so sure that there’s much of a problem.
Absolutely no one but you, im sorry. Its just impossible to like their direction you know why? Because it leads nowhere else but gem store. Do you buy games to wait twice a month new gem store items as ‘new content’ while nothing worth mentioning is added to pvp/pve? They’re adding nothing else but items to their shop and a generic quest for 120 brand new hot n exciting achievements with every single patch for how many months now? I don’t even know anymore and don’t care. What do you think will be added next patch? I’ll use my crystal ball, gimme a sec!!! at least 10 new n hawt gem store garbage, generic quest that makes you WP across the map, ~20 new achievements and some crappy weapon skins. This is your next patch, enjoy.
I like the game and the GENERAL direction.
Most people on the forums, even the angry ones, like the game.
However, every patch is not for everyone. Those who the patch did not appeal to tend to get upset.
And I like how you say nothing worth mentioning is added to PvE/PvP. Short of scrapping both modes and starting over, I don’t think anything added would appeal to you.
Just as nothing can make Vayne truly upset, nothing can make Nuka Cola truly happy.
I love watching you two quote each other, btw.
i just want my gw1 team back, they build content for players to play instead of creating gem store overpriced items for players to buy, go in LA and spam flute or Boom Box. Nothing changes with every patch, its the same kind of copy/pasted content over n over again. If i wasn’t happy three months ago because anet was on a jumping puzzle rampage spam with gem store items as ‘content’, how am i supposed to be happy when its the same thing in September 2013? They don’t improve but stay below average while milking everyone with gem store
You’re saying the T’quatl update changed nothing? Really?
Why don’t you go play Guild Wars 1 with your old team?
Yeah teq changed something? like what? all i see is overflow fails that can’t drop his HP below 70% most of the times and after ~3 minutes of fighting teq everyone is just starting to swap overflows hoping to find one that isn’t braindead. Teq changed nothing else but bring a time sink to the ultimate money sink game. Teq changed something lol you’re funny. GW1 is dead, if it was rebuilt on a new engine i wouldn’t be talking to you right now but play the game cuz it had something gw2 doesn’t know or have seen,,,,,,,,, gameplay.
“I farm the champ train 11 hours a day and I don’t see any problems with the game.”
what’s the point of even farming them these days? none of the skins worth high enough to just shut down your brain and go farm an hour hoping to get something worth your time. I haven’t done a single champ run in over 2 weeks and unless they add new skins i like, i don’t see the point of spamming champs ever again
I do wonder why the UI isn’t more scalable and customizable.
I can choose to make everything smaller, but you really should be able to remove the things you don’t want with the option to bring them back. And it seems pretty simple to do.
especially when everything on your screen was scalable in gw1…
At this point no1 but Vayne is happy with the direction gw2 is taking. For casuals its getting too grindy, for ‘hardcore’ audience there’s absolutely nothing to do but wvw (who the F wastes time on old boring dungeons to gain 1g per run lolz). So, anet, what’s up? Where you going with this game? Can i please have my original gw1 team back and send the current team to build Zerg Wars 2: Facebook Edition?
No one but Vayne is happy with the direction this game is taking. Really? No one. How about Vayne’s wife. There’s two right there. Immediately, you’re mistaken. What about some of Vayne’s guildies. We do have 120 people in the guild and most of them seem to be happy with the game.
What you’re really saying is players who want what you want aren’t happy. Players who want very specific things may not be happy. But for people who do a bit of everything, I’m not so sure that there’s much of a problem.
Absolutely no one but you, im sorry. Its just impossible to like their direction you know why? Because it leads nowhere else but gem store. Do you buy games to wait twice a month new gem store items as ‘new content’ while nothing worth mentioning is added to pvp/pve? They’re adding nothing else but items to their shop and a generic quest for 120 brand new hot n exciting achievements with every single patch for how many months now? I don’t even know anymore and don’t care. What do you think will be added next patch? I’ll use my crystal ball, gimme a sec!!! at least 10 new n hawt gem store garbage, generic quest that makes you WP across the map, ~20 new achievements and some crappy weapon skins. This is your next patch, enjoy.
I like the game and the GENERAL direction.
Most people on the forums, even the angry ones, like the game.
However, every patch is not for everyone. Those who the patch did not appeal to tend to get upset.
And I like how you say nothing worth mentioning is added to PvE/PvP. Short of scrapping both modes and starting over, I don’t think anything added would appeal to you.
Just as nothing can make Vayne truly upset, nothing can make Nuka Cola truly happy.
I love watching you two quote each other, btw.
i just want my gw1 team back, they build content for players to play instead of creating gem store overpriced items for players to buy, go in LA and spam flute or Boom Box. Nothing changes with every patch, its the same kind of copy/pasted content over n over again. If i wasn’t happy three months ago because anet was on a jumping puzzle rampage spam with gem store items as ‘content’, how am i supposed to be happy when its the same thing in September 2013? They don’t improve but stay below average while milking everyone with gem store
after almost a year of spamming fractals, with over 80 ascended rings and almost 30 fractal weps im done with this boring thing until not only reward is significantly increase (i don’t think anet understand what better reward means so my hopes are none existent for this) but we need brand new skins (preferably armor skins) only available in fotm. The main reason was to get fractal stuff, i have that, now there’s nothing to chase nor do i want to store more fractal garbage in my storage. At level 48+ anet should add Ascended Fractal weapons (must have different skins and not just a color change as anet so likes to do with their lazyness). If new skins aren’t added i just don’t see the point of spamming fractals even if reward in gold is better
The whole UI should be scalable… like what mmo doesn’t have that in 2013? Guild Wars 2, the game with more gem store items that content itself.
At this point no1 but Vayne is happy with the direction gw2 is taking. For casuals its getting too grindy, for ‘hardcore’ audience there’s absolutely nothing to do but wvw (who the F wastes time on old boring dungeons to gain 1g per run lolz). So, anet, what’s up? Where you going with this game? Can i please have my original gw1 team back and send the current team to build Zerg Wars 2: Facebook Edition?
No one but Vayne is happy with the direction this game is taking. Really? No one. How about Vayne’s wife. There’s two right there. Immediately, you’re mistaken. What about some of Vayne’s guildies. We do have 120 people in the guild and most of them seem to be happy with the game.
What you’re really saying is players who want what you want aren’t happy. Players who want very specific things may not be happy. But for people who do a bit of everything, I’m not so sure that there’s much of a problem.
Absolutely no one but you, im sorry. Its just impossible to like their direction you know why? Because it leads nowhere else but gem store. Do you buy games to wait twice a month new gem store items as ‘new content’ while nothing worth mentioning is added to pvp/pve? They’re adding nothing else but items to their shop and a generic quest for 120 brand new hot n exciting achievements with every single patch for how many months now? I don’t even know anymore and don’t care. What do you think will be added next patch? I’ll use my crystal ball, gimme a sec!!! at least 10 new n hawt gem store garbage, generic quest that makes you WP across the map, ~20 new achievements and some crappy weapon skins. This is your next patch, enjoy.
+1 to everything there.
We were promised an update from the devs regarding a performance patch and so far I have seen 0 impact if it was included into the Teq patch.Don’t make stuff up to promote your false opinion. We were never promised a specific update for performance. What we were promised was that they are constantly looking for ways to improve performance.
Correct and there has been many improvements in the last year, some more obvious than others. My company notebook barely runs GW2, I can feel the smallest optimization on that machine and there have been some. The team is working on it, maybe they should communicate on it but it’s obvious to everyone who pays attention.
There’s tons of games sitting on developer’s shelves right now because the average joe doesn’t want to invest into a gaming machine and is content with gaming on laptops and walmart web surfers. is fine. Of course you are going to get lag when your machine has to process
has nothing to do with weak hardware, i thought by now everyone knew that but i guess those who don’t own a gaming rig don’t… GW2 isn’t a game poorly optimized, gw2 is a game that doesn’t know the word ‘optimization’ at all. In one year there’s zero improvements.
To those that actually pay attention to the game, how it runs, on minimal hardware, it’s pretty obvious that optimization has been done over the year. Your post isn’t so much a lie as it is pure and unadulterated ignorance.[/quote]sooooo did we gain one fps yet?
At this point no1 but Vayne is happy with the direction gw2 is taking. For casuals its getting too grindy, for ‘hardcore’ audience there’s absolutely nothing to do but wvw (who the F wastes time on old boring dungeons to gain 1g per run lolz). So, anet, what’s up? Where you going with this game? Can i please have my original gw1 team back and send the current team to build Zerg Wars 2: Facebook Edition?
- Ranger
- Mez
- Engi if speced correctly
The rest aren’t important.
They were used to being unstoppable bunkers with f-load of damage so when that was toned down they all came here to cry a river and still are.
This ^^
roflkek.
They weren`t unstoppable, it was just the idiots running up against them never had the common sense to equip stuns, immobs etc.
As for the *"bunkers with f-load of damage bunkers with f-load of damage "
What game were you playing, in gw2 ele could never go tank & do “f-load of damage” & even if an ele goes GC, that damage you`re claiming is a one trick pony & most of it easily dodgeable & is still lower then some other classes can do.
You’re pretty funny if you put “not OP” in the same sentence as old D/D eles.
Absolutely agree and you wanna know the best part? Anet is aiming for esport with this ROFL. I remember Assassins in gw1 being extremely OP for single target back in 08 and earlier. It took them year(s) to decrease their burst to something that makes more sense (remember Shadow Prison spikes? oh yeaaaah was fun to annoy ppl but made no sense). It took them years with an awesome gw1 team….. imagine how long will it take with this current lol team they have.
if i stop wvw, i stop gw2. there’s nothing to do in this game—- even Hello Kitty Online has more pve/pvp content than gw2.
And update your GFX drivers if you aren’t current.
really dude? you think some1 with a 1k+ dollars pc doesn’t know about updating drivers? Its the engine problem, not drivers or amd/nvidia/intel problems, its their outdated engine that can’t handle anything and took them 1 years to even remove culling. It has nothing to do with motherboard either. I have a p8p67pro (~200$ back when it was released in 2011), run everything perfectly but gw2. Anet optimized their game worst than the S.T.A.L.K.E.R team in Kiev with absolutely no budget, talk about a LOL.
Its a pathetic joke but that’s the norm when it comes to anet and their bs reward system in anything pve/pvp involved. This current team does not compute what a rewarding dungeon run is or the kind of loot should be in new teq’s chest. For now i have only killed teq twice and from killing him twice i got three rares (two of which are guaranteed dailies) and one from chest rofl. Teq reward+bday present are the biggest jokes of 2013 in gw2, will be hard to forget.
In 5 days it’ll be 13 months, THIRTEEN MONTHS. In 13 months all they’ve done is add hotjoin 2.0 (solo q) and and leaderboards that aren’t even in game rofl. I’m sorry but this is as pathetic as it gets even if your standards are extremely low. This would be acceptable if gw2 was just another korean f2p crappy mmo but its not, its a game that aims for esport LOLOLOL
Horrid performance had always been at the top of my reasons of not playing more often, if at all.
GW2 survived two system upgrades on my machine, and somehow managed to seemingly lose performance rather than improve it. Every other AAA title, on the other hand, gained FPS and shiny special effects density just as expected.
Right now we’re at the point where machines that have no problem chewing through games that look ten times better can barely handle a game that should require ten times less.
Don’t even TRY to pretend the problem isn’t with the game itself.
exactly. i really don’t understand when ppl don’t believe and tell others gw2 runs well on their BestBuy laptop. i have 10mbps up, wired connection on a gaming rig and in anything zerg involved its the kind of lags i have never seen in a game and i’ve played all high demanding titles such as Metro LL, Crysis 3 and so on… I remember when gta4 came out on pc it was atrociously optimized, well, gw2 is EVEN worst and that should tell you so much its not even funny.
The game300+ players in the same area with lots of detail and spells flashing. Lower your settings or spend money on more horsepower.
There’s tons of games sitting on developer’s shelves right now because the average joe doesn’t want to invest into a gaming machine and is content with gaming on laptops and walmart web surfers. is fine. Of course you are going to get lag when your machine has to process
has nothing to do with weak hardware, i thought by now everyone knew that but i guess those who don’t own a gaming rig don’t… GW2 isn’t a game poorly optimized, gw2 is a game that doesn’t know the word ‘optimization’ at all. In one year there’s zero improvements.
no just delete Orr and add a true lev80 zone… killing risen is as boring as killing dredge, worst enemies in the game and need to gtfo
southsun says hi
I say bye to Southsun tho
no just delete Orr and add a true lev80 zone… killing risen is as boring as killing dredge, worst enemies in the game and need to gtfo
They were used to being unstoppable bunkers with f-load of damage so when that was toned down they all came here to cry a river and still are.
Perfectly said. Its 2013 and they have no plans to upgrade to DX11 rofl. Milking gem store is more important than offering a smooth and fun experience for your fanbase. I wish the current team working on FF14 came for gw2, they’re doing absolutely everything possible to please their players and are already building a DX11 patch while anet doesn’t even dream about it.
What would DX11 bring to GW2? Graphics don’t make a game, gameplay does. And GW2 has the best gameplay of any MMO by a long shot.
optimization is what it brings, removes ugly ps2 quality textures almost everything in gw2 has, adds tesalletion that removes the blockyness of this game as if gw2 came out in 2003 or something. go google DX11… there’s plenty of VERY useful things it has and not a single game would be better without it.
At the cost of 20% of the framerate, ruining the game for the average player, especially those who play on laptops. That’s not acceptable.
I have no problem with the texture. Not to mention the ps2 is the most successful console ever running against 3 vastly superior consoles. Maybe the textures were not what people were interested in. PS2 had the best games for the time. GW2 has the best gameplay regardless of textures.
I’ve been playing videogames for over 2 decades. Graphics do not make a good game. I’ve seen that time and time again. If too much money is dumped into graphics, the game as a whole suffers. GW2 is a beautiful game. Anyone who thinks differently has to get his eyes checked.
Could it be even more beautiful. Most certainly. Would that be worth the cost? Probably not.
did you at least know that 99% of games supporting DX11 also can be played in DX9? You have a crappy $250 pc from Walmart you can still play the game and enjoy it on very low. Those with gaming rigs would be playing as a person should in 2013…
Agree n disagree. I agree because it true that it brings a lot of ppl and the fight is challenging enough. Disagree because overflows are a complete mess and teq’s chest is so laughable its almost insulting to what anet is giving us for defeating this dragon. Why can’t a person of X server has a priority over some1 who guests? If im in jq and i come for teq i watch &^%^%^& who guested to my server to be kicked and get back to their holes! in 5 days i could only get to my server three times and its normally at 3-4am wtf
The main servers are not a guarantee for a good fight. Most organized groups just find a newly created empty overflow for themselves so they don’t have to deal with the pugs and/or afkers on the main server.
i tried on my server twice today. completed it once with 2:53 minutes left and the 2nd time we failed but Teq was at ~30%. In over last 12 overlfows best i’ve seen is getting him to 70% and most of the times he’s not even getting below 80% rofl.
If you’re not playing human female as a mesmer you’re doing it wrong.
Especially if you’re a pedophile since all humans in GW2 look like children.
Especially next to Norn.
wow going far with this one…
Perfectly said. Its 2013 and they have no plans to upgrade to DX11 rofl. Milking gem store is more important than offering a smooth and fun experience for your fanbase. I wish the current team working on FF14 came for gw2, they’re doing absolutely everything possible to please their players and are already building a DX11 patch while anet doesn’t even dream about it.
What would DX11 bring to GW2? Graphics don’t make a game, gameplay does. And GW2 has the best gameplay of any MMO by a long shot.
optimization is what it brings, removes ugly ps2 quality textures almost everything in gw2 has, adds tesalletion that removes the blockyness of this game as if gw2 came out in 2003 or something. go google DX11… there’s plenty of VERY useful things it has and not a single game would be better without it.
Stop playing on machines from the late 90s. A 3rd gen intel i5 and a GTX 640 GPU will run Tequatl on max settings without breaking a sweat. The problem isn’t the servers or even the engine. It’s YOUR machine.
Source: Running Teq with no lag on max settings on a Dell XPS 8500 with a 3rd Gen i5 processor and GTX640 GPU
you talk about weak pc’s from the 90’s and then suggest some garbage gtx640 ROFL. I have a gtx580 (like wut? 5 times more powerful than trashy 640? or more lolz) with a 2500k@4.2 and unless i turn character model limit to lowest/low the game runs at 12-18fps and you’re telling your crappy gpu from a Dollar store runs the game maxed without a sweat? gotta lol at some ppl on this forum some times hah
Perfectly said. Its 2013 and they have no plans to upgrade to DX11 rofl. Milking gem store is more important than offering a smooth and fun experience for your fanbase. I wish the current team working on FF14 came for gw2, they’re doing absolutely everything possible to please their players and are already building a DX11 patch while anet doesn’t even dream about it.
Agree n disagree. I agree because it true that it brings a lot of ppl and the fight is challenging enough. Disagree because overflows are a complete mess and teq’s chest is so laughable its almost insulting to what anet is giving us for defeating this dragon. Why can’t a person of X server has a priority over some1 who guests? If im in jq and i come for teq i watch &^%^%^& who guested to my server to be kicked and get back to their holes! in 5 days i could only get to my server three times and its normally at 3-4am wtf
GW2 is evolving into a facebook game you play for 20 minutes a day and log out. Also, i don’t remember any time gated content in gw1 at all, not even one (unless zquests is what you consider time gated content which isn’t the case). GW2 is all about time gated content, gem store, gem store, gem store, gem store, archaic targeting system, archaic save/load builds system, extreme time sink (current teq), money sink. Its so funny that its worth participating in this mess to see where its actually going.