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That’s funny that you think anything is as simple as one line of code.
You’re right. It’s not a line of code. It’s a Boolean.
I noticed it too. I wonder if Reddit is buzzing with datamined information, or will be soon.
The DPS meta will remain, all this will accomplish is annoying people for no good reason.
Consider a powerful potion. +10% outgoing damage, -10% incoming damage. What advantage does that give you?
A total of a 20% advantage. -10% damage is -10% advantage.
Zerkers will hopefully no longer be meta, but only time will tell. I welcome some godkitten diversity.
The team that decided to “nerf” crit damage must have forgot to send that memo to the teams that made the zerker DPS test Knight events and this new trait update.
The see the words saying “fix the current zerker/heavy meta”, but I’m not seeing the actions that will actually do that. I see one token nerf that effects zerker and non-zerker alike, and content that reinforces the need for zerker along with a new trait that ensures warriors won’t actually lose DPS.
“LFG Zerker warriors ONLY”
+1
A lot of players are still complaining about not being able to set up presets. But, eh.
2. Less people able to make a legendary = less sellers = price rise.
This logic offends me as an economist.
Reduced demand for precursors will cause precursor prices to fall.
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2. I miss the tedious, political, exhaustively glorious fun that came with collecting faction in order to improve and beat your fellow guild’s faction amount in your alliance and ascend your alliances to a better city. I miss the pride and political aspect of city conquering as well (again, all tied in with guilds).
Plz no.
The last thing that people need is grinding guild influence just to remain a member of that guild. I got tired of that kitten in GW1.
Am I the only 1 that is seriously confused to what scarlet did once she died? What did that drill tap into? And what did that energy stuff unleash? So confused someone plz help!
She kittened off the player base.
And that’s the kind of kitten that gets you stomped.
If you have such sympathy for Scarlet, why not her armies?
Relevant link: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatMeasureIsAMook
Depends on which army. Generally speaking, none of them are sympathetic; we’ve got 2 factions of religious zealots, communist zealots, robots, psychopathic and probably dragon-addled rebels, and pirates. Those guys all made their own bed. If they showed any sign of repentance or any indication that they were acting outside of their own control, I’d be more sympathetic.
My question is; is Scarlet really any better?
If you have such sympathy for Scarlet, why not her armies?
Relevant link: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WhatMeasureIsAMook
Picture related.
Attachments:
“The biggest of those must be the change to the dye system. In the NA/EU launch version dyes were character unlocks, whereas in the China version they’re account unlocks. With this new system you only need to collect a dye once and you can use it on any character. This is more convenient, but it means demand for dye will go down, so we’re also reducing supply. Dye unlocks now come only from crafting and from the gem store.”
Couldn’t have they have just, I don’t know, reduced dye drop rate?
I thought March 18th was balance patch too.
My disappointment level: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArXqCtRSa2I
What’s actually in it? I keep hearing it’s the rebalance patch, but the only confirmed thing about it is glory removal from pvp. There will probably also be story stuff as well, but I don’t see much else going on.
“The maintenance build [March 18th] is not the same thing as the feature build.”
-Grouch
Is that all? Are we going to see the crit changes later today, or is that reserved for April?
I, myself, would love to see racing content.
If you don’t mind watching a bit of Minecraft content, but it would be awesome to see some maps similar Vech’s map racing designs.
Read my third and fourth line, and yes I’m entirely completely ultra double triple duper sure.
And, would you also mind telling me where I can “Read up on current meta” as well?
Condition damage needs fixing, but if you mean “group support” as in you have one player sitting back as a buffbot, no that does not need fixing in any way. Every class excluding necro brings support in a dungeon regardless of their gear or build.
I think there’s a pretty wide gap in what some people would call support. As you said, necros don’t bring support. I would also argue that engineers and rangers lack in anything but unilateral support and nobody likes that kitten because you aren’t “contributing to the team.” 3/8 professions though is pretty bad. Warriors also lack much support aside from banners, although they bring DPS to the table – but that again circles back to how there seems to be a majority of players who prefer to bring some defensive support with them, considering that an easy fifth of the playerbase prefers Guardian.
Ranger spotter and frost spirit is absolutely nothing to dismiss. And engineers can might stack and give vulnerability. So…. Uh. Yeah. It’s still 1/8 professions.
After playing guild wars 2 since release, I can safely say that I don’t think I’ve ever seen “LFG [engineer/ranger/necromancer].” There are times where I see requests for Thieves and Elementalists for specific dungeons like CM and AC, and Mesmers, Warriors, and Guards are unanimously requested for dungeon runs.
That’s class imbalance if you ask me.
LOL
People thinking Mesmers, guardians, and warriors are the only classes in the Meta.
Please, please please please please go read up on the current meta!
Reasons you don’t see people asking for this class or that class: good groups don’t pug. Speedrunners who “speedrun” in pugs are usually not even playing the meta.
By the way, 3 warriors 1 guard 1 mesmer is so last year.
You sure?
Condition damage needs fixing, but if you mean “group support” as in you have one player sitting back as a buffbot, no that does not need fixing in any way. Every class excluding necro brings support in a dungeon regardless of their gear or build.
I think there’s a pretty wide gap in what some people would call support. As you said, necros don’t bring support. I would also argue that engineers and rangers lack in anything but unilateral support and nobody likes that kitten because you aren’t “contributing to the team.” 3/8 professions though is pretty bad. Warriors also lack much support aside from banners, although they bring DPS to the table – but that again circles back to how there seems to be a majority of players who prefer to bring some defensive support with them, considering that an easy fifth of the playerbase prefers Guardian.
Ranger spotter and frost spirit is absolutely nothing to dismiss. And engineers can might stack and give vulnerability. So…. Uh. Yeah. It’s still 1/8 professions.
After playing guild wars 2 since release, I can safely say that I don’t think I’ve ever seen “LFG [engineer/ranger/necromancer].” There are times where I see requests for Thieves and Elementalists for specific dungeons like CM and AC, and Mesmers, Warriors, and Guards are unanimously requested for dungeon runs.
That’s class imbalance if you ask me.
[Event] Frustrations with Knight fights.
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Recalibar.6482
I don’t see number two working. The skill level of players is all over the place although the bell curve leans more to the lower. If you make content that’s “challenging” but with a higher success rate (conflicting ideas imo) then you risk having the same content being a faceroll for everyone else. I don’t believe there’s a good middle ground for this.
If everyone just ran full zerker gear, defeating the watchknights in even under 6 minutes would have been an easy task, even at their former health.
But no, people refuse to run the best gear, then complain when Arenanet punishes them (and, by extension, everyone else when they fail the event) for using less than best-in-slot.
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[Event] Frustrations with Knight fights.
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Recalibar.6482
“Reduced the health of each Assault Knight by 25%.”
Looks like the casuals won.
We going to see the return of the Super Adventure Box patch this April first?
I hope so, I’m itching to get my hands on a red super shortbow skin.
The logic of "deadly poison" (Miasma)
in Battle for Lion’s Arch - Aftermath
Posted by: Recalibar.6482
Same reason I and my teammates are immune to my poison fields, I reckon.
It seems like the only purpose blade shards serve is going towards the back piece. Not everyone wants one, and I’ve already got a Tempered set on the second day the patch was out, and just pile them up. You also can’t sell them or vender them either. Do they serve some other purpose than going towards the spinal blades?
Black Citadel isn’t made of Wood :P Bring it
Also I doubt any of the Charr would simply let a insane plant waltz right into their city with her armies. Also they do have quite a few tanks parked inside waiting to be unleashed on anyone stupid enough to strike.
You’d be surprised. In a Personal story mission, a level 10 searing effigy walks right though the front door, right past all of their defenses, and if you don’t stop it, kills everyone in the black Citadel. I was not impressed.
Nice spin.
Except my point is the material market should not depend on champ trains.
With the addition of Magic Find being account wide, perhaps that might be a possibility when more people constantly run 200-300% and loot fat stacks of T6 from dungeon/fractal runs. Higher level fractals would also be nice too, and as would higher magic find loot chances from trash mobs dependent on reward level.
But as of right now, nerfing champ trains alone would hurt everyone.
Champ trains rejoice, casual player survives, just barely.
Is the state of this game seriously still “okay” in regards to wealth distribution?
The champ train community:
http://ragefaces.s3.amazonaws.com/5041e101ae7c704e28000007/success.png
Really now, John. Are champ trains somehow boosting the economy? The commraderie? Can we get a look into the drops of these mats outside of champ boxes and estimate where it could be vs where it is?
The champ train creates supply, which you demand. If the champ train didn’t run, the price of EVERYTHING would skyrocket. They work tirelessly to keep prices low.
For you.
Supply and demand.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-yWKgZv9JY
Again with this Mary Sue term, it’s becoming more and more apparent that people obviously don’t understand what it means. Scarlet is NOT a Mary Sue by any means of the word. Look it up, it doesn’t mean what you think it means. A Mary Sue is a character which is infallible and a ‘do-gooder’ NOT a psychologically cracked, partial homicidal maniac.
I use Mary Sue & villain Sue together because the variation in the 2 is meaningless with regard to the failings of that character type. I don’t care that a Mary is a do-gooder & a villain is a do-badder. That’s not what makes up the horribly broken nature of the Sue. You can harp on semantics all you want, but when people are talking about Sues, it’s not because they are trying to pick nits on how they can attack someone’s labeling, it’s because they are trying to explain the spirit of such a broken character. As one of the definitions points out:
“Since there’s no consensus on a precise definition, the best way to describe the phenomenon is by example of the kind of character pretty much everyone could agree to be a Mary Sue.”Yes, Scarlet “excells” in many fields but she had to LEARN them as expressed many times throughout the living story, a Mary Sue is naturally gifted with talents well beyond what her age would allow, and without any formal training. Also a Mary Sue is a character that is associated with horrifically written romantic undertones to normally a character well beyond her age.
So where is it said that these skills can’t be learned? never seen that. The point is that she’s over powered as wish fulfillment, not that was a particular method of gaining those skills. Saying “they can’t be learned” makes almost no character ever created a sue. I bet the Star Trek character the term is named after learned their skills. Albeit stupidly fast.
"She’s exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas, and may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting. She also lacks any realistic, or at least story-relevant, character flaws — either that or her “flaws” are obviously meant to be endearing. "And It’s so blatantly obvious that Scarlet’s “madness” is meant to be quirky, fun & sassy. Its probably her most ridiculous character feature.
And as for the lore being retconned or dismissed, I don’t really see anything that exemplifies that except for maybe the Krait. And even there it’s mentioned that she held something over them or tricked them to get them to agree to an alliance to begin with.
Are you kidding? Every alliance was built on the idea that she convinced them to join her & yet she has never once been shown to be even remotely well spoken, convincing or even realistic. There is so much lore bending to fit her she’s like a block hole. they could have explained everything she’s done as a manipulation of other groups skill & it would have been way more believable, but nope, it had to be her being awesome.
Also you’re making some rather large assumptions about Scarlet’s madness by comparing her to every other character that is manipulated in some way by a GOD from the realms of torment, considering you have no idea if that’s the case with her or not.
Ummm.. That’s the whole point. Unless they are going to retcon the gods even more & say they are nothing more than wizards (the only comparison they made with the gods & dragons was in the movement of the world & said that their power may rival that of the gods. which is kittened anyways) , then there’s pretty much no satisfying way to explain her acting so dumb. Insane & cartoon, sassy, wacky, sodomizer are not the same. & even if they come up with a mathematical 1+1=2 reason, she still stands out at wacky, dumb & totally unidentifiable as a person who is actually insane. Even worse, if they make it so that she did really see the eternal alchemy, ho man.. that would be the most epic Sue ever. Holy RP fanficness..
That’s why people are not looking forward to the end. Because the end will only explain WHY she is out-of-place, goofy & lore bending. After that happens, she will still be out-of-place, goofy & lore bending.
I wouldn’t call Scarlet a Mary sue, it’s just the sheer amount of Arc Welding required to establish the character as a legitimate threat, and the story feels like it retcons itself just to fit the character. Not to say that it has created some bad retcons, it’s just the idea that everything thus far had to be tied to Scarlet.
More about that here for anyone actually interested:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ArcWelding
State of the game right now: The faster something dies, the less damage you take, the more tanky you are. In the words of the guild wars 2 community:
“Everyone should run full zerkers. Zerker gear is objectively better. The reason reason people don’t run zerkers is because they still need to learn when to dodge or haven’t mastered the dodge mechanics (Aka, Only noobs and bad players). Every point spent in any other category besides Power/Precision/Crit damage is a point wasted. The only reason reason to run anything else is because you’re running a Condition damage build.”
See also:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MinMaxing
often touted by: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StopHavingFunGuys
After nerf, hopefully, the drop in damage is going to going to discourage players from running full zerker builds. 10% less damage means the enemies are alive 10% longer, and are able to deal 10% more damage, and such elitism will be discouraged.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GuideDangIt
Basically that.
I like this patch, but the addition of complaining and crying really needs to stop, I don’t really like the mechanic. Maybe we could nerf the kittenhurt?
I think they’re simply overdoing it with their recent announcement of tangible achievement point overhauls, as some of you complain about it. I tend to agree, but I don’t think of it as quite so black and white as to take one side or the other. There are clearly some broken mechanisms being added, and there are also some things that I thought should have already been in the game to begin with. Since we have a list now, I’d like to examine them individually:
Exclusive armor and weapon skin unlocks – I’ve mixed feelings about this one. Are you unlocking them or trading achievement points as some form of currency? I’d agree to a small occasional unlocking system perhaps, but I don’t much care for the idea personally. Think of new players vs. experienced players. That sort of thing.
Permanent account bonuses—This had better be kitten expensive. Say, 1000 per 1% increase in magic find?
Currencies – No, no, no, all of my no. This should never be a thing. Ever. No. Just no. Did I say no enough? Not only is it broken, but it’s a system that can’t be fixed no matter what the exchange rates are. These are clearly tangible benefits which in my opinion shouldn’t be in game. I feel the same way about the gem store, specifically everything worth gold can be bought with real money. I’m not a fan of that either. Gold, karma, laurals, should all be earned though their respective methods. This puts experienced players at a distinct advantage- especially laurals. If I can get better gear simply by being around longer- I don’t think that’s acceptable.
PvP Rewards— Skins and glory boosters. Skins really don’t matter in the context of arena fighting style, in my opinion. And for the most part, they don’t really matter. Considering glory boosters are easy to get, I don’t see a problem with those either.
WvW Rewards— No. See currencies.
Utility Items— These had better be kitten expensive. And in my opinion, not actually a thing. But since these are the items you’re encouraged to buy with real life currency; this is probably a better system.
Unique Titles— Why wasn’t this in the game before? I honestly think that this should have been added to start with. It’s intangible, but still shows off the player’s progression throughout the game. This is the best thing I could hope for in regards to achievement points, and was actually a bit disappointed by there not being an aggregate title for points earned.
See what I’m getting at though? Achievement points are for kitten, not “I wreck you because I’ve played longer.”
But then again, I’m a fan of games like Dayz, where people can hold you up or kill you “not because they’re ten levels higher than you are, but simply because they found a gun and you didn’t.” So, my opinion may not extend to any MMORPG model when all I play are typically MMOFPS/FPS.
Dead drops not working on Maguuma @ Wayfarer. Glad I’m not the only one. Hopefully they’ll roll out a patch soon.
How do I craft/acquire these?
If I have…
200+ skill points
About 400k karma
100g (Which I don’t plan to blow on one.)
500+ badges of honor
About 200 Ectoplasms
All crafting mats required, including orichalucum.
About 200 dungeon tokens
If you can help, it would be greatly appreciated. Is it a drop or do I have to go and craft something special?
- Unusually high respawn rates (this actually seems to be pretty much everywhere in the game to a degree, but feels even worse in these zones)
^
I’d be fine if they adjusted spawn rates. Other than that, I actually like the difficulty of Orr.
I actually thought about how they could add zones that would require tickets that were purchased through the BLTC. If you look at a map of the zones, places like Deldrimor front, Blazeridge mountains, Woodland cascades, Maguuma Wastes, And the place west of LA could all be explorable. The best part about it is that they don’t have to be 80+ because of the level adjustment.
Fatal error pevents further play of a character.
in Account & Technical Support
Posted by: Recalibar.6482
Approaching the personal story instance for “Containment,” a fatal error window popped up asking if I would like to send an error report. This occurs every time I start up the character now. Here are the details:
—> Crash <—
Fatal Error: Fatal disk-error (1784) on read,
App: Gw2.exe
Pid: 3880
Cmdline:
BaseAddr: 00400000
ProgramId: 101
Build: 15502
When: 2012-09-13T16:23:52Z 2012-09-13T09:23:52-07:00
Uptime: 0 days 0:02:25
Flags: 0
—> System <—
Name: RECALIBAR-PC
IpAddr: 192.168.0.2 5.13.250.22
Processors: 4 [AuthenticAMD:15:5:2]
OSVersion: Windows 6.1 (64 bit)
—> System Memory <—
Physical: 3663MB/ 8188MB 44%
Paged: 10956MB/16375MB 66%
Virtual: 2399MB/ 4095MB 58%
Load: 55%
CommitTotal: 5418MB
CommitLimit: 16375MB
CommitPeak: 5904MB
SystemCache: 4086MB
HandleCount: 24175
ProcessCount: 71
ThreadCount: 905
—> Process Memory <—
Private: 1176MB
WorkingSet: 796MB
PeakWorkingSet: 940MB
PageFaults: 1260592
[DbgHelp.dll is C:\Windows\system32\dbghelp.dll]
[DbgHelp.dll version 6.1.7601.17514 (64/32-bit compatible)]
—> ThreadPoolFile01 Thread 0×1b40 <—
—> Trace <—
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—> Thread registers <—
eax=36c0f8ac ebx=00000000 ecx=00000000 edx=00000040 esi=00000000 edi=00000003
eip=00c3d8f7 esp=36c0fcc0 ebp=36c0fddc
cs=0023 ss=002b ds=002b es=002b fs=0053 gs=002b efl=00000246
eax-32 36C0F88C 00000000 fffffd34 000002e4 fffffd34
eax-16 36C0F89C 000002cc 00000019 00000000 36c0f8ac
eax 0 36C0F8AC 80000003 00000000 00000000 7642b9bc
eax16 36C0F8BC 00000002 00000002 0fc227d0 00000280
eax+32 36C0F8CC 0000002e 00000040 36c0fc30 36c0f9b0
eax+48 36C0F8DC 36c0f900 0089f64f 36c0f9b0 00000000
—> Code <—
00C3D8D7 45a19fff 8b450c6a 0050568d 95fcfeff E….E.j.PV…..
00C3D8E7 ffb90300 0000c785 f8feffff 00000000 …………….
00C3D8F7 e81411a1 ff8b4dfc 33cd5ee8 e9b6c5ff ……M.3.^…..
00C3D907 8be55dc3 cccccccc cc535657 b9403368 ..]……SVW.3h
00C3D917 01e8c37b a0ff8b1d 24925801 8b3d1c92 ...{....$.X..=..
00C3D927 580133c0 b9403368 01a31c92 5801a320 X.3..
3h….X..
—> Stack <—
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—> Error Logs <—
0f1a4’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00df68’ from parent bone ‘root’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×00721d’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00e36b’ from parent bone ‘rgriphand’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×01026c’: UnlinkModel called on CModel without LinkComponent
Model ‘0×0197f3’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugmturn r
Model ‘0×006343’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×007a38’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtrunfidl
Model ‘0×007a38’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtidlerunf
Model ‘0×0197e9’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtrunfalt
Model ‘0×0197e9’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×00f1a4’: Can’t link child ‘0×00df68’ to parent bone ‘root’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×00f1a4’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00df68’ from parent bone ‘root’, there’s no bone with that name.
Model ‘0×006343’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×0197e9’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtidlerunf
Model ‘0×0197f3’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugmturn r
Model ‘0×006a93’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×0197e9’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtrunfidl
Model ‘0×004d7e’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtrunfidl
Model ‘0×004d7e’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtidlerunf
Model ‘0×006343’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugtalrtrunf
Model ‘0×006343’: Can’t link child ‘0×00cf79’ to parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name. Linking to root instead
Model ‘0×0197f3’: Missing anim or fallbacks: ugmturn l
Model ‘0×006343’: Can’t unlink child ‘0×00cf79’ from parent bone ‘mouth’, there’s no bone with that name.
Mem Arena ‘Environment’ capacity exceeded. Attempted alloc category: ‘Map’ Size: 44951008
Mem Arena ‘Collision’ capacity exceeded. Attempted alloc category: ‘Collide Havok’ Size: 281424
Texture missing mip chain: 0×0374c7
Texture missing mip chain: 0×0374c9
Disk read failed with error 1784 (incomplete): file ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.dat’
Disk read failed (1784): file ‘C:\Program Files (x86)\Guild Wars 2\Gw2.dat’
—> DirectX Device Info <—
VendorId = 0×10de
DeviceId = 0×1200
Version = 9.18.0013.0602
Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
Compat = 0×00100800
VidMem = 1024 MB
Is there a way to verify the cache files or is this a problem with the service? If so, I would like my login to be moved elsewhere so I can continue to play on the character until the problem is resolved. Thank you.