Guild Wars 2

sostronk.8167:

EFWinters.5421:

Peetee.9406:

You get 5-10 points per person that touches the yak. I know it’s never really been exploited but you could win a match simply by yak slapping if you could discipline people into tapping once and backing off.

Well, I guess someone is eventually going to come around and correct you, might as well be me.

You don’t get 5-10 points per person that touches the yak.

Yeah you get a total of 3 points for a yak kill, regardless of how many players kill the yak and only if the yak has a supply path to deliver supply IE killing two yaks with no secured supply path = 0 points for your server.

Potentially stomping could provide more points, but in reality I think as people adjust to the new meta the yaks will quite possibly still be a higher source. Could be wrong though. I’m waiting on future stats to get a guage on it.

Go kill a yak in a camp with no dirrect supply route and get back to me.

I’ll wait….

You get 5-10 points per person that touches the yak. I know it’s never really been exploited but you could win a match simply by yak slapping if you could discipline people into tapping once and backing off.

Arkanfel.8403:

Peetee.9406:

Last weeks final score was 629.7k, meaning 35% was from yak slapping.
This weeks final score at the current pace will be 627.3k. The PPT will actually be 2.5k lower this week because theres more people fighting over points and less people yak slapping.

So much for that theory…

Looks like someone forgot the part about how points-for-stomps have only been around for ~36 hours.

I dont think you understand. PPT is slowing down, its not speeding up.

Yak slapping gives far more PPT than stomping does. If a 50 man zerg kills 2 yaks in a camp that is 1000 points. There is no way you can stomp 1000 people in a week, let alone the 3 minutes it takes that zerg to get to the next camp.

Less people zerging yaks, more people fighting in the middle, PPT will continue to go down.

Last weeks final score was 629.7k, meaning 35% was from yak slapping.
This weeks final score at the current pace will be 627.3k. The PPT will actually be 2.5k lower this week because theres more people fighting over points and less people yak slapping.

So much for that theory...

SabreWalrus.8647:

Can any NA players confirm if this lag was fixed by the most recent patch, so I can know before next EU primetime?

No, still bad.

Tricare.2946:

Peetee.9406:

You’ll find in 1vX situations about the only thing a ranger can do is run.

Not true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9PHZ7wkUes

I’m sure there are good rangers out there that are capable of winning 1v2s or 1v3s when the situation is right. But speaking from about 500 hours of experience running as a duo with my ex, we’ve never had a ranger come close to beating us. Engys, yes, necros, yes, but never a ranger.

You’ll find the ranger much better for taking camps regardless of which build you use. Rangers with bear pet and eles with greater earth pet can take camps in seconds just by sending the pet in and raining AoEs.

You’ll find in 1vX situations about the only thing a ranger can do is run. An engy running perplexity runes always puts up a good fight. Speaking from first hand experience I’ve lost a 3v1 against a pistol/shield engy.

Yes but I miss my quaggans and krait.

I think the Risk/Reward is right for most world bosses.

Before there was no risk, you could just afk auto attacking and collect your chest at the end. Now there’s a high risk of dying if you just afk but a low risk for event failure if everyone participates.

They did a very good job here, in my opinion anyway.

Vayne.8563:

There’s different types of hard...fun hard and not so fun hard.

There’s all sorts of hard things that are made "artificially" hard...like one shot mechanics. Those I don’t find fun, whether they’re harder or not.

I enjoy fights like the Lupi fight, or some of the fractal fights. I love the elemental boss at the end of the grawl fractal.

But I hate the Simin fight in path 4 of Arah. It’s not a fun mechanic for me.

It’s not ONLY about difficulty.

I very much agree with you.

When a creature looks at you and you just fall over dead with no chance to react, that’s not very fun. Me and my mates love to do Lyssa in the early morning hours when there’s only 3 or 4 of us and the fight is really awesome. But when there’s 30+ players and that champ gorilla starts 1 hitting people with invisible rocks, just ewww....ewww!

The Blood Witch

No contest....

I’m sure there are thousands of players out there that choose to main an elementalist so they could summon a lightning hammer, stand on top of a boss, and auto attack to victory. I know that’s why I rolled mine.

Seems like a trivial non-issue to me.

Call me when they bring Eles up to par with Wars in PvE.

When did PvE become a competiton?

If you want to prove how much more skilled you are, go play sPvP.

We’ve 3 manned it (Ele, Mes, Guard)

Tried to do it with 2 but was unsuccessful on around 10 attempts.

I enjoy my staff ele and am looking forward to these changes.

Between guild missions, dungeons, world bosses and dailies I just can’t fit open world in to the schedule.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to roll a necro and play through the world again. But I have hardly the time or resources to keep up with power curve, let alone roll another alt.

CuRtoKy.8576:

That isn’t a good guild :\

Yes because it’s far more likely an entire guild is full of jerks as opposed to this one player that fell and died at the ram part, choosing to release instead of waiting for someone to rez him, then threaten to quit the game because he didn’t get his reward.

Send them to Indo Xx. He has a nice collection!!!

Still here after a year, have to admit they’re doing something right.

knives.6345:

Sad to say, not the mission’s fault if you are not careful…

Yup, don’t blame the game for your own mistakes.

The goal is to get you to build towards your weapon slowly and not for you to just hoard all your mats and do it in one swoop.

Oh my bad, didn’t know I was dealing with someone that had the ability to read others’ minds.

I look forward to any changes made to Fractals.

I agree that fractals are too long tho. I think the ideal length of a dungeon is 20 minute with 30 minutes pushing the extreme limit. This 45+ minute stuff is crazy, I can’t sit at a computer for that long...

I throw siege on dead players. If you don’t like it, don’t die.

The only two zones I ever see overflows for are Frostgorge and Queensdale. Since you can do guild missions in overflows I don’t really see it is as a big problem.

Pass on blood, no thanks!

Just one day I would like to see ANet’s PR guys take the day off. Their whole entire staff
come on the forums and say whatever was on their minds.

As a huge critic of the game nothing would make me happier than to see one of their staff members come on these forums and tell me along with all the other critics to just kitten off. It would be nice to know that there are people at ArenaNet outside of Josh Foreman that still care about making a great game and not just about chasing after financial profit.

I would love to get their honest opinion on time gating, I bet they hate it as much as we do.

I think the balance between melee and ranged damage is fine.

If people want to stack and abuse game mechanics so they can farm their gold that’s fine by me. It doesn’t affect me anyways.

Doubt they have the resources necessary in order to continue the personal story otherwise I imagine they would.

The problem is the money you spend in the gem store does not necessarily go back into funding the game and may infact be used in the development of another game you may never play (See: Wildstar).

Maybe I’m just blissfully ignorant but its been months since Ive seen a bot.

I’m sure you’ve heard the addage ’It’s the squeeky wheel that gets the grease’, well that addage applies to everything in life even here.

You have your own views of what makes a great game, I have my views and others have thiers. Now often those views are conflicting and sometimes even in direct opposition to each other. So while I may be very happy with the game if I say nothing and someone comes on here and fights for the opposite, ANet will cater to them. They proved that back in November 2012 when they first introduced fractals and ascended.

If I’ve learned anything from visiting these forums the first year it’s that ANet caters to ones that whine the loudest and the more vulgar they are, the quicker the response they get. That’s why I don’t feel the slightest bit bad about critizing them because they brought it upon themselves.

If they had stuck to their vision, none of this would be an issue...

I love how you can load up GW2 and just go.

You want to PvP elsewhere, you sit in a queue.
You want to do a dungeon elsewhere, you sit in a queue.
You want to do a world boss, you have to gather people.

Here you just login and go...

I agree with your synopsis on fractals (and dungeons in general). The ideal length to me for a dungeon is about 20 minutes. When a path takes longer then that I tend to get bored and the experience is diminished greatly. So much so that I will go days if not weeks before doing another one.

I was preaching this back when people were complaining about the rate of exotic drops.

While MF will increase the rate in which you get rares and exotics, it will decrease the rate in which you obtain white and blue items. So while you’re getting shinier items your overall gpm will go down as you’re receiving less white loot bags, unid dyes, and t6 mats.

Professor Sensei.2941:

Back to my original post. I asked for any and all players who witness a player abusing exploits to be reported. I do not support. We don’t resort to exploiting. A few bad apples will always be present in any harvest and the same goes for our server and its members. However I did witness you exploiting into our tower and in your own words to show your whole server how to do it. Previous posts even confirm you saying YOU exploited into the tower. That hardly fixes the problem and honestly makes it worse when you spread the knowledge on how to do it.

Our server has no need to use exploits in order to win, your server apparently does.

I think it’s hilarious you reported me for jumping in and jumping out when you were standing there watching 3 of your servermates exploit in then sat there and defended their tower while we were ramming it.

I think that’s a lot more sleezy...

But hey, keep up the ’good’ work and your ’good’ name. Maybe I’ll get banned, you never know.

Professor Sensei.2941:

What does me being in the tower have to do with anything? So if I go and defend my keeps your going to report me for that too? I reported someone I WATCHED jump into a tower and assault my fellow TC members. Did you see me exploit into a tower? Answer is no because I didn’t. Please stop ruining my good name as a honest player.

Your ‘good’ name, keep supporting those exploiters dude.

Its nice to know when your server gets thoroughly crushed you resort to exploiting and reporting legit players. Keep up the ‘good’ work!

Professor Sensei.2941:

Peetee.9406:

Professor Sensei.2941:

Korbaal.6402:

Congratulations TC on taking a fully upgraded Jerrifer’s without dropping a single piece of siege and without creating swords. Its the type of thing we have come to expect from TC though. I guess that’s what happens when you completely crush and demoralise your opponent.

Can you post some screen shots of it? I know I can safely speak for the majority when I say we don’t support this kind of behavior on the Tarnished Coast server. This kind of thing ruins good weeks and promotes bad sportsmanship.

~Proud member of the Tarnished Coast server.

LOL, you’re the one that exploited in and then reported me for doing it. You’re hilarious!

I did no such thing. I watched you get into the tower and attack people who were defending it.

No, you watched me jump in the tower and immediately jump out after your entire group exploited in. Dude, my entire group was right there, you should know you joined our group. All 3 of us reported you LOL

Professor Sensei.2941:

Korbaal.6402:

Congratulations TC on taking a fully upgraded Jerrifer’s without dropping a single piece of siege and without creating swords. Its the type of thing we have come to expect from TC though. I guess that’s what happens when you completely crush and demoralise your opponent.

Can you post some screen shots of it? I know I can safely speak for the majority when I say we don’t support this kind of behavior on the Tarnished Coast server. This kind of thing ruins good weeks and promotes bad sportsmanship.

~Proud member of the Tarnished Coast server.

LOL, you’re the one that exploited in and then reported me for doing it. You’re hilarious!

I think you’re giving them too much credit.

Unless you’re a warrior, guardian, or mesmer they simply do not care.

I think Thief is the most overplayed class. All you need to do is equip 2 daggers and hit the 2 key. If you’re hitting any other keys, you’re def overplaying.

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The game is more or less the same from when you took a break.

From a PvE perspective, we’ve seen the addition of fractals and guild missions. Both of these features are heavily time gated and neither presents a really tough challenge.

We’ve gone from just dailies/monthlies being time gated to literally the entire game being time gated. Dailies, monthlies, world bosses, dungeons, and now even crafting are stuck behind once-a-day mechanics.

Honestly, it’s a great game if you can only dedicate an hour a day and/or five hours a week. Don’t plan on playing it as your primary game especially if you’re an MMO player. If you are looking for raiding and end game progression, you may want to consider a game like FFXIV to play along with GW2, which is what I am doing now.

You can create your own set of difficult content by using your imagination. You can force yourself to just use ’blue’ gear or make a new character with the understanding that if you die, you have to delete the character and start over. You can also setup your own reward system so if you complete say Arah in all ’blue’ gear, you unlock a ’green’ piece of gear.

If you what you truly want is more difficult content and a better reward system than you can do that on your own, you don’t need ArenaNet to do that for you.

But we both know that’s not really what you want....

Grats lol

Got the hammer on my 1st 20 fractal and made a warrior to use it. Birds of a feather...

Please, no more furries.....

People are angry because they can’t make others play the way they want.

ANet never promised that.

Annelotte.8105:

Gburzak.7035:

Annelotte.8105:

stop crying plz Meteorlogicus is perfect..the Purple and footsteps are awesome ;D

You may like it. But since you don’t own it and didn’t put plenty of your time and money making a very different weapon from the current version, you could have the curtesy to just kitten.

@gburzak

^^

Man, it looks sweet with your gear set I’ll give you that. But notice both of your screenshots cover up the blue handle? The blue handle completely clashes with the rest of the look, to me it ruins it.

I’d be okay with the purple night stuff if that handle changed to purple as well.

I dislike the new Meteorlogicus very much.

The footsteps seems out of place with the rest of the design theme. The daytime version is nice but the color disappears when it’s sheathed. The nighttime version is very ugly as the top half of purple clashes with the bottom half of blue, making it unsightly

It’s much easier in a group.

If you have 5 people going, it’s far more likely someone will make it to a checkpoint than if you’re solo. I like it that way.