just wondering since i plan on playing mesmer more, is this a guaranteed intended change? Or could they change it back so phantasms and clones help the ranger rune bonus?
i had a dream last night that them telling people in interviews SAB was not coming soon, them releasing airplane mode and that_shaman not finding anything about w3 in his datamining was all an elaborate april fools joke and that today they released SAB and everyone who was annoyed about the lack of content was finally relieved and we all rejoiced in rata sum!
But then at least we’d have kittening silence about it.
Of course not.
We will just have demands that they release new worlds and such for it.
I seriously doubt at this point anyone who wants SAB will criticize Anet if they just release it with w1 and w2. I bet theyre will be hype for w3 but by now people are so dissapointed by the lack of SAB they will only criticize the long wait.
Everyone knows HoT is coming out, SAB is just content people want until then…theres seriously nothing to do except the same old buggy PvE or the cheesy PvP
The reason you shouldn’t care is because it literally has nothing to do with the plane crashes (notice I said crashes, because there are more crashes in a year than you seem to realize and just because the German one was disastrous doesn’t mean there aren’t hundreds of them a year). The sepia filter, the airplane noises… it’s obviously meant to be a joke on old kids who run around like this for fun.
Do you get offended that people are still using airplanes today, despite the crash in Germany? Clearly they are offensive to you right? I mean, they’re in an airplane, clearly it’s in bad taste.
Seriously, plane crashes happen. There were a few big ones last year too… kitten happens. RIP to those who died, it’s unrelated to an april’s fools in a video game.
Im not offended by it because im not german….If i were in that area or i knew someone on the plane i would obviously be offended. Im not sure 100% whether i agree they shouldnt have released it but i can see where the OP is coming from. Imagine if a plane had crashed in your state and then a week later you log on and see eveyrone in a video game smiling and making airplane noises…….
Thing is, you guys should stop thinking you’re the minority rich and other people are dirt poor and jealous of you.
As mentioned, I am a legendary maker too, I’ve made and sold 6 legendaries myself and cooperating with friends to make dozens more (yep im the kind of person who likes to do world completion and have stacks of Obsi shards from SW farming), all over the TP system because it is supposed to be. Sure, 15% fee is not taking much gold out of the market, but it’s still like doing something instead of doing nothing at all. Your tax in real life is small but still contributing to government’s fund btw. I hope you dont make a protest to make them disappear because its too little, too.
The thing is, the mail system still work. Please dont act like nowadays it totally just disappear. You know friend who give away precursor to another, they can still do it now. You know some friends making legendary for others in occasion like birthday, they can also do it still. SO I dont really get your point. Sure, if you want money from it you can still does, even thuosands of gold. You can still draw them in 500g per week, not that it totally disappear.
TP is there to be used. I dont get why you guys wanting to ignore it so much. Everyone’s using it and just get deduction slowly in smaller package, so in a big scene they’d still losing a large sum of gold over time. Yet they dont complain. And they’re the class you guys think “dirt poor”.
im not actually in the same situation as the OP….i make at max 100g a week because im lazy and i pvp a lot. The reason why im supporting him is simply that i think we should be more understanding of other peoples situations. I have friends who are impacted by this as well. I understand where he is coming from and i dont understand why they dont have a person to person trading system.
Its not just giving away precursors and stuff, if i got dusk tomorrow i would sell it to a guildy. Would he be able to pay me right away…no. So if theyre going to limit the ability of someone to send gold through mail why not make another alternative when it comes to higher priced items? If they restricted person to person trading for weapons made from the mystic forge i.e. foefire weps, legendaries, etc. and skins from bl chests wouldnt that be fine?
Im sympathetic to people who were affected by the plane crash, and i cant imagine how it would feel like to log into a game to find a joke on airplanes after having experienced that tragedy.
I think the least they could have done was made an acknowledgement about the crash or could have postponed teh event.
Altho it is kinda sad seeing that a lot of people are acting as if you should not care. If i were in that similar situation i would definitely care, even if it isnt anet’s fault.
SAB could have easily been turned on for April Fools and it wouldn’t have wasted nearly as much development time since it is, technically, already in game as compared to the 24 hour long, forced 1919 airplane mode. Not only that, but anyone who didn’t want to participate in April Fools (RPers, those who don’t enjoy being frozen above the waist) could have ignored it completely. One day of SAB would have been greatly appreciated over this, and I hate SAB.
How does 1919 airplane mode fit in with the current direction of the game?
SAB W3 confirmed to have airplanes and WWI combat!
I am totally in favor of a player to player trading system. Obviously its easier to use the TP for items that you use on a regular basis, but a trading system would be great for higher end items. If they made the trading system like lfg, As in have an extra tab where people can list wts/wtbs than it also wouldnt create massive spam in LA.
To OP, sorry about the affects the changes have on you. You seem like a pretty reasonable person who is being hindered not only on your own progress but also in helping people around you.
Also the TP price sink doesnt really make that much sense. I dont see why the 15% on legendaries creates a huge loss of gold from the market. Sure its a lot of gold for the person selling/buying but for the whole market its nothing. Theres probably 1000s of more gold lost in tax on lower end items that people wouldnt waste time using the possible peer to peer trading system that all. Additionally precursors and higher end items are ones that are more special and can have a lot of meaning between people. I know friends who have given away their pres to people who were working on those legendaries. I know people who made legendaries for other peoples brithdays. Those higher priced items need a better way to be traded than the TP.
settle down a bit and wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow morning it will be april 1st everywhere so true april fools day. Also the latest patch had numerous bugs so no idea how that might have affected SAB. Maybe they are working on fixing it atm.
So let me get this straight, you are playing a game that has no monthly subscription and yet you demand more content from a game that is on par with those of a subscription.
There use to be the bi weekly content update, but many requested they wanted a full release expansion. So this is what you are getting. The Dev’s are busy working on said expansion that many asked for.
Seems like you just can’t please everybody. There is no sub fee with this game, you could easily take a break for a little while and come back when there is more to do.
Just look at games like WoW, where players have to pay money every month and end up getting no content for over a year.
Is there any harm in asking for content. I think people are more upset that they are releasing new gem store items every couple of weeks and yet they havent come out with any new content. Expansion is going to be paid so what exactly is the money from gem store sales going towards. I understand that they could have a lot going on, but they had more than a year to update SAB.
I dont think this was just after todays patch. Its been a while since cof p4s been bugged. Some people werent even able to start the path because of how buggy dungeons are nowadays
This wouldnt be such a bad change if he didnt use necrid bolt/lupine blast as often….but im not really sure how often he uses it because ive melee’d him for too long. Altho this change might force people to chain reflects at ground level especially if he doesnt do his aoe right away in p2.
Two days ago i was in a 50. Third fractal is cliffside, and it goes pretty well up till the final boss. Someone leaves at 50% after saying their internet is bad, at 0% two others die and its just me and a war. Having the foresight to take pistol offhand on swap i los mobs, drop black powder and tell the warrior to pick up the hammer…We pull and kill mobs running around the torch thing trying not to die and everytime he picks up the hammer he drops it and then proceeds to kill chanters with his gs. I try to pick up the hammer but without smoke field he dies…. Boss rez to 100% and he leaves. Never have i been so kittened at a pug
I had this exact same thing happen before in fractals…It was a while ago so i dont remember the exact circumstances. I think it was a 50 and it was definitely on the second or third fractal. Seeing as how this is affecting more than one person it definitely needs to be looked at.
Yeah I’m just heavily biased because I feel that ANet always fix bug that benefit the player but never the other way around haha. I know that’s not always true though.
I kinda feel that lupi needs a ‘rework’ but I don’t believe in ANet enough to not break or nerf the entire encounter. Hence I would rather them fix some other bugs.
kitten if Lupi needs a rework (which he kinda does to make it fresh) every boss in this game, bar a select few, need crazy reworks!
also can op fix the title to *dungeon…its been bothering me
I really like this idea. I bought an alt account i havent touched at all that i wanted to play on eu with. The main reason i want them to be linked is because if you can send account bound items i may be able to send ascended armor and weapons to that account. I love fractals and one of the main reasons i wanted to have an eu account was i heard there are some wonderful players there. But its too much of a pain to get crafting to 500 and craft it all over again. There are probably some cons tho with account linking.
on a side note i would suggest they create a dual home thing for accounts so you can have a home server in NA and EU instead of having to create two separate accounts.
I go into practice arena all the time if im on a new class, or if i just want to mess around. Sure its no fun and when i was new i hated it because it was just zerging by whichever team had more players but sometimes it was even and that was alright. I gave constructive criticism wherever i could, but its also kind of difficult to give advice. Some people take it as you are telling them you are better than them, which i guess you kind of are, but i ususally just try to tell them i have a bit more experience than them on a certain class or i know a couple of tips they dont. For some reason in every game mode even practice tensions and prides are high.
Maybe they could add a hotjoin where people enter solely to get advice i.e. you can enter as a student or a mentor. That could be interesting although extremely difficult to figure out.
Best advice try to find a friendly pvp guild and ask for help there. Or ask friends who are better than you to 1v1 and learn from them.
That’s definitely true. Some better advice than trying to skip phases might be to look at how you approach the bubble phase.
I think the most useful thing to know about the bubble phase is that you don’t need to attack the Shaman at all to break the bubble. Stacks are removed by using a skill while you have the shaman targeted. That means you can focus on killing the elementals with ground targeted AoE and melee cleave and the shamans stacks will be removed while you do that if you keep him targeted.
At least 1 staff ele is tremendously helpful also, Meteor Shower absolutely wrecks the elementals while Frozen Ground buys you time. Make sure your team supports your eles, they’re going to want some condi removal after the Meteor Shower as they will have picked up burning during the channel. You don’t have to rush between bubble phases so changing to Water to lay down some water fields to blast can help a lot with keeping your team’s health pools topped up, especially if your team knows to watch out for them to use their own blasts on the field too.
Get your team to watch their positioning as the bubble phase nears, you want everyone close to the Guardian so they can make it to his Wall of Reflection right away.
Get the Guardian to save an aegis to use as soon as the Shaman’s Bubble pops. The Shaman is enraged at this point and anyone getting hit by an arrow will most like go down, worse if someone gets caught by the firestorm at this point they could easily end up fully defeated as its not easy to res someone in a double damage ticking AoE like that.
Do we have any idea what the cooldown for that skill is? One minute?
I’ve never timed it but based on where my skill cooldowns are when he bubbles again I would hazard a guess at 45secs (if unchilled). I have a bunch of recordings I can check when I’m home from work to give a better answer
Edit: Wow four-five-s is censored
Thank you for the advice, this is really helpful. Yeah usually we manage to stack in wor but we get shaman out of the bubble before the elementals get killed. Ill try to get these to work with my party next time around.
I honestly doubt people that have a hard time killing the boss is able to skip phases.
A suggestion is if your not in danger of the boss diving into a villager, try to kill as many elemental as possible before popping the boss bubble(it is suggested by guildwars2 dungeon.net)
Yeah i dont think we’d be able to skip phases atm, but im just trying to pick up some tips for when people get a little more used to the encounter. Its one of my favorite bosses in the game, but i dont know much about it since i rarely get it. My team is in full zerk however and we run the best builds possible so its not entirely out of the question for us to burn through phases if we get more comfortable/ can stack might during the fight
You were favored in your first two matches, so you lost one point in both. The third match was even, but you got over 400 points so your ladder points didn’t change. This is working as intended, but it sounds like you think the match prediction should weigh premades more versus solo players.
Not entirely sure how the system works, but if i remember correctly when solos go up against premades usually the premades have people with lower mmrs than the solo qrs. This system makes sense on paper, but organization is much better than mmr. When i play in solo q if a match starts with a gap in points usually its difficult to come back when you cant easily talk to anyone. In a premade its much easier to climb back up through rotations and such. Also premades can create a better team comp which is extremely advantageous in this matchmaking system where for some reason 3 thieves can get paired with 2 mesmers against 3guardians, an engie and a war.
Hey so i just had the volcanic fractal on a guild run. Personally i dont really find shaman that kitten thief and war ive spent time learning how to melee him so i know most of his tells. My group was having a hard time on the bubble phase tho, and i was wondering if its possible to skip it by ice bow freezing him right before hes going to transition? Also any other tips on getting through it besides reflects. I think someone also said it doesnt matter whether you target him or not during the bubble phase and that any skill you use will take off one of the shield stacks…altho not sure if thats true.
You’re wrong. You should learn a bit more about the boss. Lupicus only uses his necrid trap and his frenzied blast depending on how distant you are from him. There are many spots in the middle of the arena which you can stand directly beneath him and he won’t move away.
Dam learn something new everyday!
anyways i dont think its an exploit, but if we’re arguing on what stops him from doing attacks, cheesing wall stops him from doing all of p3 so kinda exploitish
I think its more important to focus on people skipping large portions of content, not using tactics that make it easier. Ac p2-3 bug, the new skip at the end of p2, the numerous jps. Those are all more important exploits in my eyes than walling lupi.
WL ratio is a large indicator of skill given a large sample size.. 200 games definitely shows there’s a lack of skill on the player’s part.
It is a pretty large sample size and i think for most players it would show their skill but i dont think its necessarily a good indicator. Its possible that this person got placed into more matches he was meant to lose especially if its solo q. That would also make sense with his place on the leaderboards. Although i think the leaderboard is still pretty bad atm and lower mmr players are kinda favored.
Also btw i laughed pretty hard at ur lf team post, then later i saw you 1v1 in gasms arena. Can i just say that u got some gud teef skills!
if you stand on his ring in the open, he will move to be able to use those attacks. if you wall him, he can’t move, and therefore can’t use the attacks.
hmm doesnt seem like an exploit still…
Ive duo’d lupi before in the open and by standing still just outside his ring he didnt move nor did he use those attacks. So maybe i was really lucky. I have also seen him use those attacks against the wall when people moved him or were slow so its not like he cant use them.
One type of exploit has previously been defined as using terrain to disable a boss’ attacks. He can not use his most powerful attacks in phase 3 if you push him to the wall. Therefore, walling him at all (which is required for the WoRsploit) is an exploit.
edit: also, I don’t mind the jp like stuff, as long as its used just to explore. I don’t like it when its used to skip.
wait which attack can he not use in p3 against the wall? I thought it was just you stop him from using his bubble and his aoe if you stand still inside or right outside his red ring. The wall just makes it easier…unless im wrong
actually after my initial annoyance at my matches and the losing streak i had in the beginning i realized: why does anyone assume win ratio should matter if solo and team queue are combined? a match cannot be carried by 1 person so solo q is all about rng. Team queue on the other hand it makes sense for because if you’re playing with people of your same skill level than it is a good indicator of your abilities.
…just another reason why the two should be separated
Not sure if i like this. If i see someone who is extremely unique i will not even try to mimic their armor. If someone has a nice combination ive seen a few times before i dont mind taking ideas from them tho xD.
Altho its honestly not too hard to figure out with wardrobe…i just click through everything and sometimes i find better ideas by doing that!
There was a post a couple months back on bunny ears that Gaile responded to. She said they might bring it back near easter. Im hoping (sometimes even hopping) that they bring back those ears and maybe some other stuff in a bl sale!
Not a big fan of the gem store but this would make my day if it happened!
Celestial is bad in PvE. Having a boost to everything means that you’re only adequate in every aspect. Its much better to have a more specialized stat combination. In PvE power boosts coming from berserker or assassin stats are the best, however you can also go in different routes if you choose.
Celestial stats in PvP and WvW however are extremely good since there you have many more things to consider. Maximizing damage in PvP on engineer and Elementalist you use both conditions and raw damage. Celestial allows you to do both fairly well and also gives really could sustain.
IMO, dont make an ascended set of celestial armor for your guardian, instead make a berserker’s set. Celestial, I think, is not the best for Guardians in WvW so it wont help much there, and in PvE berserker is far superior.
However if you do find a fun build that uses celestial by all means go for it, but be wary with ascended armor since the stats are not much better than exotic and if you ever decide to change stats it will have been a waste.
I’m in a bleh state in PvP. It’s just an ocean of engineers and power rangers, makes it both maddening and boring at the same time.
ftfy
wait ur an engineer…no wonder :p
yeah def in a bleh state but its because HoT is still a bit aways and i dont see them adding much new content till then. Woulda been great if they released season 1 or SAB, maybe on april fools day?
I agree that the issue is not that they are OP but super noob friendly, and i think thats a real problem. Celestial engie i dont mind so much anymore because if you know their combos you can easily avoid them. their problem is the ability to put out tons of damage and withstand a ton as well but thats more about celestial than it is about engineer. The real problem i see is turret engies simply because of their ability to reward a player without them requiring any skill. This isnt an issue when im playing with people i know, but in solo queues it is horrible. Today i went against 3 teams each with turret engies power rangers and power necros. Sure these classes are not hard to beat, turret engies you do it with rotations, power rangers you just target and destroy, and power necros you los and destroy once lich is up. But in combination its really hard to coordinate and the effort it takes to beat them is much more than the effort it takes for them to win.
Im not usually a fan of nerfing things however because i feel like it adds to the challenge and id rather be able to beat a class than have it nerfed to where its easy. But to see so many cheese builds in ranked and unranked recently its kind of disheartening to do solo queues anymore.
I made an lfg, ‘’god like ppl, zerk only,u die u get kicked, melee everything, melee lupi of the wall, p3’’. to my surprise ppl actually joined. It ended at the crusher. lol
Lupi of the Wall? He’s grown so accustomed to it that he’s adopted it as his title?
Because in the end, the gold system works. Maybe someone at Anet had this happen to him too many times in their own DnD campaign but was thankful that the time and money spent to prepare and fight their way through a dungeon wasnt wasted on an item that no one could use, and would’ve just been left there if it couldn’t be sold, thus making the whole campaign worthless except just for xp.
Makes sense, But i think they could make the system a bit better. Altho the new legendary system seems to make a really nice compromise
Also you didnt answer my question i think ill just take it as Im cute in a good way
Well yeah been seeing a lot of turret engies, which isnt exactly an OP build but it definitely gives a lot of advantage to one side.
Engie itself isnt so much OP as really forgiving. I was playing this morning with a fair amount of lag while also watching someone stream. Did fairly well and i dont play engie that much lol
5Gauge on his stream had a good idea for nerfing turrets and that was to change the damage and health of turrets with the engie. So a zerk turret engie’s turrets would have low health but deal more damage. It’d also be great if conditions applied to engies would affect turrets, such as blinds and whatnot
Open world appeals to casual players but wouldnt it have been cool if they had added similar rewards to dungeons? Guaranteed mats rotating through each dungeon so if you want to grind charged lodestones you could do coe one day and when it rotates cm the next.
last boss of that path is pretty fun, the immobs the push back the fairly hard hits, all make it extremely interesting especially the first time you do it.
However, rest of the path is pretty annoying with the torches in the beginning and the bombs later on. Although so far ive only ever pugged it or done it with pvp friends so it may be more fun with a better group.
From the picture of the collection, this looks like it will be amazing. Doesnt seem like it will be a boring grind for trinkets and stuff, but rather doing interesting things all around the world. Honestly i was planning on just grinding gold to get my first legendary before HoT came out because it really isnt that hard, but i might just wait because this seems like a really fun and immersive experience.
Dancing for queen Jenah! cant wait to see what the other collections require.
Gw2 does suffer from the problem that many of the things you want to get, you can really only get through gold. If you want to get a nice skin what do you do? Do you go on an adventure to find all the things you need to make it and then put it together. Most likely no, you will just farm gold and buy it. Same thing with dyes. Should you go out and play the game collecting your dye drops and hoping to get the one you want. No instead you’re told to just get gold and buy the dye you want.
Its not entirely a bad system but at times it can really ruin the fun of a game where you’re supposed to be having adventures and exploring and progressing your character.
Hi, I just bought the harp to keep me busy during the long and uneventful pvp queue times. I was wondering what songs people have learned to play that dont require macros?
On a side note: is using a macro for playing the harp bannable? i mean its just a toy. I dont really want to macro because whats the fun in that, but itd be cool to be able to not get carpal tunnel and be able to play a song in game.
It also goes for the other side as well. Just because you have a lead doesnt mean you should become complacent or push your luck. The amount of times ive had to tell people not to push far who end up pushing far, dying and then our team losing most of our lead is countless. Match doesnt end until its over!
Same experience here with bad matchmaking. Sure some pug games its just luck whether you win or lose but some games are just messed up lol. Its really discouraging since i started off in the 300s on the leaderboard and now im ridiculously low. I fear queueing ranked solo anymore
