Swiftness buff should be always on in pve environment when you are OOC
you mean like they added to swtor cos they realised there was so much frigging running around it was a huge time sink.
back ontopic, more mount threads! go
another mount thread… keep trying tho, bound to get mounts if ppl keep making threads about them every week.
mf would affect the chance of a uni dye to drop from the mob, not what comes out of it.
back on topic, anet wants you to throw money on useless stuff like dyepacks, when the reality is your going to lose money ALOT more that way rather than get a dye that actually is worth something. so in today’s lesson we have learnt gambling is bad, just buy the colours you want directly from the tp.
this is exactly what this game needs right now. forget about changes to pvp/wvw or fixing fractals and/or dungeons. what we need to do is form guilds that get together making money together and gettin incredibly rich and controlling all the cool and rare items on the BLTP so all the poor/casual/new players can never have cool stuff cos they will never afford it!
/raises his glass “gentlemen, to evil!”
geebus how many new threads do we need about precursors being manipulated. im not going to tell you to shutup and get grinding, im going to say, either get rich by playing the market instead of the game or stop trying to get a precursor. those are your ONLY choices unless you get that 1/100000000000 lucky break when you open a jormag chest/dungeon chest/loot random mob and he craps out a precursor better yet the one you actually want.
theres a difference between something being “rare” cos its hard to get instead of being “rare” becos rich players just keep buying them to get even richer. if you dont see the difference, your either one of those rich players getting richer or your an idiot enabling those players to get richer.
i had a feeling i left myself open there, but that was funny.
this event was purposely made to be more “relaxed” so people would have time to login and see/do everything w/o missing much. so the answer is basically no.
would be shocked to see it at all
now all we need is a forge recipe that allows you to make a bag of bags.. you know cos you never know when you will need bags.
lots of games with raids do this, selling spots/loot drops, just cos you think they don’t deserve it doesnt mean crap if anything it makes you look like a self-righteous tool. thats like saying my friend who just hit level 80 put 4 exotics in the forge got a dusk doesnt deserve it becos theres people out there who put in 100s of exotics and got nothing.
if nobody spams 1c undercuts every item will still sell
its software that lets you use a gamepad because the game itself doesnt support gamepads properly. seems fine to use it, as long as its still 1 button press = 1 action.
id say those take 60-90 mins depending on who you bring, and if they have any idea what to expect, arah prolly closer to 90-120 mins tho. the funny thing is i found those later story modes were alot easier then AC/CM go figure.
definitely found AC easier alot easier at 80 then 35-40, the scaling system just works against you in dungeons which is stupid.
other mmo’s general have the dungeons at a certain level then a heroic/expert mode of that dungeon at level cap. i don’t see why they don’t do the same thing here with fractals, just scale all explorer modes to 80 and players to 80 on entry. i’d even do the same thing with story modes but yeh people hardly do it anyway except maybe that one time to see it.
most people have some sort of reasonable expectation when they are trying to do something. for example, in wow/rift i could go farm mobs for 30-60 mins, in order to get the cloth i need for a few bags, sorted. in something like lineage 2 you would farm for hours and hours for just a part of a weapon/armor and you needed several of these to make 1 and that was just a one part of even a larger grind of mats needed, this reminds of gw2 atm. if i need lets say 90 of a t6 mat, like powerful venom sac, i wouldnt even know where to start, farm risen spiders is prolly my best bet and i’d prolly be there for 2-3 hrs for maybe 5 of these mats at best and barely get anything else of use.
the drop rate of most stuff is so LOW that its more feasible to do something that gets you gold quickly and just buy it, which must be true cos of the numerous nerfs/changes made to the game via certain events/dungeons to reduce gold earning. besides dungeon bosses, and mobs i need to kill for event/karma credit, i feel every other mob is just in my way to slow me down and isnt worth killing.
-item drops for me arent such an issue since most the time they have the wrong stats/rune/look that your after they usually end up being glob fodder anyway, once again tho this ties in with complimenting your income from other sources. material drops tho are horrificly low and make me cringe. the fact that someone can kill the same kind of mob for 1-2 hrs and get nothing, while someone else can get 1-2 lodestones OR one person gets 2 vicious fangs and another gets over in the same space of time is just terrible.
-i think money drops arent bad nor good, in most games its just meant to compliment the trash drops as an income source. the lack of said drops/money in dungeons was clearly proof by the update of particular bosses gaining wonderous bags and 10-15s as well. doesnt make the trash any more appealing to kill tho.
-i dont mind exclusive content armor/weapons w/e having a certain difficultly to be obtained. the issue is two fold tho; dungeons were not made equal, neither are the paths time/effort required to complete them. the dungeon armors have varying stats which is good but doesnt actually reflect their difficulty to obtain. compare this to crafting which is, basically if you have the mats its a few clicks but the issue their is getting those mats is a ridiculous time sink, no more so than the dungeons. legendaries are a bit iffy its not even the way u obtain the precursor or the number of mats you need its just obtaining those mats w/o buying any of them takes an INSANE amount of time. if you ask legendary owners what was involved in obtaining theirs i garantee most of em would say they “played the tp” or did “something” to obtain the gold to buy the mats. i doubt many of em if ANY would say ‘yeh i farmed those 200 lodestones and 250 of each t6 mat etc’.
so i go back to what i was saying about reasonable expectations. if i kill 10-15 of a mob, i should get at least 1 fine mat that i am seeking. not kill 5-6 maybe get 1 then not see another for 15-30 mins straight. lodestones should not be THAT rare considering how many different uses they have, averaging 1 per hour is crazy, every 50 or so kills should get me one if not at least a core. as for item drops, its already been said enough times, rares either drop for some people or not at all for others even though lets face it they are glob fodder anyway, as for exotics they rarely drop and for some people infact never have from a chest/mob ever.
some stuff is too easy to acquire and other is just too ridiculous, basically its the people who play the TP to get their gold that get what they want sooner and with less effort, everyone else is just feeding them (with the exception of some ascended items, for now anyway).
the threads about the scavenger hunt not market manipulation. its not coming in jan or feb, so you can stop holding your breathe now.
how do you know? i mean I was only speculating but how do you know? please post source(s).
and you are correct. we should stay OT.
just taking a wild guess based on how long ANY other changes takes Anet to implement. almost 3 months is needed for the incoming fractal fix; able to rejoin, able to bring people from multiple difficulties is one example. so try to think how long it would take to design, build, test, implement a completely new idea not originally planned. would i love it in jan or feb? absolutely, theres ALOT of changes i’d like in either of those patches, but when you think about it these guys have to work to some kind of schedule so whatever is coming in jan and feb would have to be known and planned since before december easily maybe even november since both of those months were clearly focused on the “events”.
if the anet devs weren’t operating like russian kgb agents from the 50s, with more open communication we would all know more. maybe the upcoming Q&A after new year’s might shed some light but i doubt it.
your guess is as good as anyones, cos i doubt we will really know anything until 1-2 days before the patch even comes out. otherwise it’s just the few bread crumbs they throw us when they reply about something.
alot of weapons/armor you can get from dungeon vendors that cost no gold. manuals cost 3g10s in total and by level 60 you should have that amount and some more easily from completing hearts/vendoring. 8 slot bags should hold you until you reach the mid levels to pay 50s for 15 slots. if you dont care about a legendary, uniques or the gemstore then you will have no problem obtaining all the gold you need.
the need for more only comes around when you “want” something that requires it.
the fact this game needs to add DR to it’s dungeons makes most other mmo’s with dungeons look way better.
the threads about the scavenger hunt not market manipulation. its not coming in jan or feb, so you can stop holding your breathe now.
why don’t they just let us skip everything and go to the final boss already, it sounds like that what people want.
my favourite part is where he exploits line of sight on the first boss, dunno if thats still possible since that vid is from Oct. on a more serious note i only have a few pet peeves that make TA frustrating at times.
the 1st boss is a pita, hard enough to dodge the 10 bloody aoes he sends at you, the 500 blossoms in the room make dodging it more harder then it should be, sure they rally you up but you havent got much room for mistakes here.
court knights, wtf? ok 1 in a trash pack is acceptable (i saw two once which was odd), but the ones near the end on that path with leurent seriously, who is killing all 3 and the boss at the same time? this fight seems stupidly overpowered and screams “pull us all and focus on one while the rest tether back” and i hate that. i like being able to kill every pack of mobs w/o ppl dieing or doing some ridiculous cheese method.
can we add a waypoint before the kitten bee/water puzzle thing bloody hell.
this game needs more wall-street crashes imo, then bad traders can jump from their offices into the streets of lion’s arch.
don’t forget over 1000 new items that can be crafted!!! when really its 2-3 new mats and that 1000 is including every new weapon/armor/jewel/food with the same prefix of stats using those same 2-3 mats.
for a t6 mat its worthless. oh look i could of got maybe powerful blood or powerful venom but instead i got something worth a little more than vendor price yay! every t6 mat should have some real value.
they have mentioned that not all legendaries were created equal, didn’t the incinerator recently get a small upgrade of effects? just assume Meteorlogicus is on the overly long to-do list they have.
if you got money to throw away in the mystic toilet then proceed to throw in as many rare/exotic weapons as you need to in the forge. if you don’t have that much money then start saving. you don’t know if they will be cheaper or easier to get next week or 6 months from now, thats the risk you either take or dont take.
dungeon was boring and repetitive, seriously absolutely no thought was put into this 5 day recycled marathon; collect 15 plants/presents, stop toys, destroy turrets, fight a variation of toxx, yawn. the pvp snowball was okay for a bit but just depends what teams you get, achievo hunters ruin it cos they wont play to help the team and the reward wasnt worth the effort. toycrapalopse was a huge letdown, wasnt fun, wasnt doable with friends/guildies, the most unfun horde/firefight/tower defense game i’ve ever played. everything else is kinda meh, some skins are nice others kinda bleh. music event was decent. jp was okay. currency got worthless pretty quick, no long term use like the candy corn.
was hoping for something like mad king dungeon but nope, overall huge disappointment.
so less than 10 people appreciate the pet out of 100000’s haha. the gambling will earn them more money in the short term but lose them more in the long term when most of those “gamblers” get fed up of losing against the dealer. if they just make everything buy-able at a flat rate and remove the ridiculous gambling with the boxes or least have both, that way maybe you get lucky and spend less gems to get what you want, maybe your unlucky or feeling stingy then you can always just buy it outright.
i feel bad that you spent 50$ tho and didnt even get a single mini pet at all? at least if u got any of the other 3 you could of used the mystic toilet to make a quaggan.
yes any node will respawn if u stand over them, i’ve had this happen once or twice.
trash mobs are meant to be irrelevant mobs that are easy to kill and arent very rewarding, hence the name trash mobs. most games i’ve played make these mobs pretty much chase you forever around the dungeon until you die or you kill them. anet has decided that their mobs will tether at some point, but also have a ridiculous amount of HP and not be worth killing. this is why ppl skip or in some cases try to skip and mess it up which is worse.
srsly i wouldnt mind if they added alot more trash mobs in the dungeons but changed them from silver elites to bronze veterans, or a mix of bronze and normals, then i’d happily kill more of em instead of skipping.
more levels means all gear becomes worthless, and the first complaint will be UPGRADE MY LEGENDARY TO NEW CAP THNX OR I QUIT". leveling has been done to death, games need to move away from it or least move away from it as a pointless time-sink constantly adding 5-10 levels every 12 months.
you mean like some sort of mini-pet tab you can click on at the top of the screen from anywhere within the game? a place where only mini-pets are kept, easily accessed and looked at, maybe even linked into chat from? this almost sounds like a feature every other mmo with “pets” has, sigh.
ps: invisible bag is a band-aid fix on something that needs stitches.
i prefer to just ignore them completely since they most the time give you nothing special when you do kill them, grab the box and run like a filthy skritt i say.
did you also notice the Heavy Bag of Coins also don’t give the quoted “between 80c and 1g50s.” amounts either? on the two i opened i got 4s and 32s with some copper.
i do love a good hitler rant, and that was a kitten good one.
i thought the idea sounded “okay” at first but i think it stems from the issue that there arent enough players in the map floating around to do that event which have no interest in the dungeon. at least thats my understanding of how those places would of been kept open when the game was still brand new. not to mention the event to defend these places happens too often, and of course everyone is STILL inside doing the dungeon.
sounds fair, this means they still aren’t sellable on the TP which is what i think the original reason for having them soulbound was. still sucks to get one of those runes from the mystic forge and be unable to sell it but thats a different issue.
if i had to guess based on the description and for some reason being unable to find the npc mentioned in it anywhere in the wiki i’d say its just not obtainable ingame or was removed/left out.
this reminds of those stories i read about eve online where someone or group of people act as a “bank” and then one day dissappear with the all the money. this reminded me alot of those articles, either way made me laugh.
finally an article that actually mentions issues the game has instead of the usual “this game is 10/10 buy it and yes we are paid to give high scores” nonsense.
did you try lookin up those weapons on the gw2wiki? you will find which classes have offensive skills for both of those. yes this prolly mean playing a class you do not like.
i think lotro has a great cash shop. lots of fluff, boosters, unlockables and everything else. kinda makes me wonder what was Anet thinking when they have so little in theirs by comparison and the things you do wanna buy makes u feel like ur getting hit in the balls.
geebus… 12 or 15 bag slots are big enuf for any normal player, who the hell buys the extra bag slot for a char they arent sure they want to keep? someone who lacks common sense. for the price of those gems can easily afford those 4x 12-15 slot bags.
when you first login say hi… wouldnt that be the most obvious thing for ppl to do/say. other then that tho i do agree the game ui is terribly useless when it comes to managing a guild doesnt track he things we need. no login/logoff notifications (friend or guild)and no last logged in – some pretty basic stuff almost EVERY game out there has.
hate this stuff soooooo much, theres already enough miserable ppl married in real life do we need to punish them further ingame?
on the other hand add town clothes for bride and groom to gem shop (these will sell nicely to all those suckers), make the players RP the rest.
i’ll believe it when i see it, until then its all talk. official guide books can be wrong, wiki isnt perfect neither. the only person who has the answer is Anet, but knowing them they would never answer how loot works, or at least as precisely that people would like.
most games give players some sort of “free anchor” to a town or some place they frequently travel ie hearth, soul recall etc so this feature isnt in gw2 fair enuf people go wvw or pvp then back to LA fine. my biggest issue isnt that though, its the fact the base cost of the closest wp just gets stupidly high. this adds insult to injury when you die ontop of your repair costs. from LA to frostgorge its betwen 2-3s depending how far into the zone you wp, sounds fair, but anywhere in gendarren fields from LA is closer to 1.5s-2s – makes no sense. the scaling of the base cost for the shortest wp just gets worse as you get closer to lvl 80.
i wouldnt mind grinding for the t6 mats if i could easily find spots to do that with mobs that reliably drop them without having to compete with everyone else who has the same idea in the few areas that ppl already do this. as for lodestones …. seriously the droprate is so low on these or even cores for that matter that i just refuse to even try.
like the op said, you either need to sell a kidney to buy stuff off the tp or you need to forget about real-life and kill yourself grinding.