Guild Wars 2

This minigame is on their website, and is not a part of in-game SAB. Click the link in the OP and click the image about halfway down the page.

For those who haven’t seen: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/presenting-the-rytlocks-critter-rampage-game/

This is amazing. I’m going to get home tonight and throw money at the gem shop to support this craziness. You guys just have a cinematic artist who felt like making a retro platformer, and made an incredibly difficult (RYTLOCK DIFFICULTY!) and awesome mini-game for people to play.

ANet, this is like the greatest moment of nostalgia of my gaming life. I just can’t help but gush at how sweet this was to discover in the waning hours of my work Friday day, and how excited I am to get home and attempt to beat this in all of its glory. If you guys continued working on this in your “spare” time, I would continue to play it and throw money at the gem store to support it.

Seriously, stand-alone Rytlock’s Critter Rampage game for the computer and you can have 50 bucks for it. I wouldn’t even be mad. If you haven’t tried it yet, guys, give it a shot! It’s great!

P.S. Delly Sartika you rock!!

DevonCarver.5370:

I main an Ele. I was speaking less about myself and more about the rest of the team who definitely don’t get the recognition they deserve. Just remember every change you see had a bunch of people working on it.

If they posted, we’d love them publicly too.

Mssg.7804:

but you have separeted PvP and PvE team, right? …

Yes, but the difference is that the PvP team isn’t the same size as a whole company (like Smite or LoL’s companies are structured).

Excursion.9752:

The only people that don’t want them easily obtained are people that have them already. The “I got it that way so you have to mentality” is sort of childish.

You’re making an incorrect and fairly naive assumption. I, as an example, have one of the many I want already after countless runs, but I’ve still got many more to go and innumerable more runs to do to get the ones I want (staff / scepter). It has nothing to do with “I got it that way so you have to”, but it has everything to do with “When I get the one I want, it’s going to be the greatest day of my GW2 career and I’m going to be incredibly happy”. That feeling of happiness is part of what makes it all worth it, and part of why RNG bonus skins like Fractal skins are great.

Let’s be real, no one really is motivated to do these things when they have no rewards. Merits are cool and all, but for most mid-range and smaller guilds, your bottleneck is influence and you have an abundance of merits. If these missions rewarded a single commendation, they’d be a lot more popular and exciting for players to participate in.

Thanks, Sky!

And good job everyone on the guild bounty! Guild treks will be coming up next week!

If it’s the only condition applied, that is correct, it will not tick. If there is another ticking condition already on you, like bleed or poison, it depends when between ticks the 1s condition was applied.

EvilSardine.9635:

Thanks for the reply. Nope, I even tried sending it with zero attachments or links. A text only email didn’t go through and gave me the same error.

This [EA] guild guy is still speed cheating and has been doing so for months and hasn’t been banned. It’s annoying.

This sounds like an issue with your email provider. I can email that address perfectly fine.

Ethics.4519:

The thing that makes the skin attractive to me is the look.

That’s fine, but remember that FotM exists to satiate players who want something prestigious to seek and a kind of dungeon to make progress in. If you want the skin as bad as you say, you’ll do what it takes to get it and not complain/worry about it when you don’t. That’s how I view it.

Ethics.4519:

My character’s look is mutually exclusive from the looks of surrounding players, imo.

That’s true even considering what I said. The fact of the matter is that it looks cooler to you and feels more rewarding to you when you use an item if it was a very difficult path to get it. People would not push so hard or do FotM nearly as much as they do now if FotM skins could be grinded with pristine relics or the such.

As soon as you get a precursor, you stop, bank it, and then continue what you’re doing. That you didn’t is your mistake. Shame, but them’s the breaks.

Excursion.9752:

Why does it feel like this issue will never be resolved. It depresses me every time I see this thread. Somethings gotta give.

Hopefully nothing ever does. People are all gimme, gimme, gimme and don’t stop to consider that more than half of what makes the skins attractive in the first place is the fact that they are so hard to obtain and RNG’d.

If you ask me, more dungeons need RNG rewards that have special skins.

Read more about it here.

Chris.3290:

SoS does not offer a permanent solution, because we most likely will not enjoy the same successes in T3; but you won’t be facing them alone if you are with us.

We’ve all lost players moving down ranks, so please keep your propaganda and recruiting to other threads dedicated to such things. Those of us still here on any of our three servers have little intention of fleeing our servers after we’ve already fallen so far and fought our way back to where we are.

No one on SBI or CD faces any challenge alone. We’re all in, balls out for our servers, and that’s that.

No, there is not (currently) a way to get 10 + 5 more in a single equipment slot. You can naturally infuse an item so it has +5, then use an infusion that has another +5 (with or without a stat getting +5 as well depending on how much money you want to spend).

Chauntry.1635:

Rising Dusk its clear to anyone reading this you’ve been lucky… Probably a couple great swords, daggers, maybe an ax or 2. Clearly you feel rng is rng and you hope it remains that way, only time will tell if they plan to address this or not. Truth be told there probably are bigger fish to fry but a lot of people run fractals and nothing more, they unlike you have had horribly bad rng and want an alternate means to obtain these. Nobody is asking for them to be delivered on a silver platter.

Have I? I have gotten only one (dagger) of the three skins I want (dagger, scepter, staff). I’ve gotten more skins than I can count that the class I want to use the skins on can’t even use. Just because I have skins doesn’t mean I am winning the lottery and having my judgment clouded by it; no, on the contrary, I think you other guys aren’t considering the ramifications on the prestige of the items if they become easier to get or easier to get the ones you want. They are supposed to be insanely difficult to get, particularly the skin you want.

I, personally, can’t wait to keep running L48’s and one day get the staff and scepter. Those days will be very sweet when they come. If I could just throw any of my countless pristine relics at the forge and make it, or if I could just get one guaranteed after running it a couple dozen times, it just wouldn’t feel the same. I am pretty confident that ANet is aware of that, and that is exactly why things are the way they are. It’s working as intended.

I don’t understand what it is that makes you feel like you need an alternate way to get these skins at all. Really, it’s good that some skins in the game are RNG bonus rewards. You don’t need them, you don’t have to have them, and heck, they don’t even have stats. You want to get them to look cool and for their prestige, but need to consider that changing how you get them ruins that prestige and makes them less desirable to begin with.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

[…]but Ranger to me isn’t a burst class – it’s a sustain and survive class.

You can’t really avoid a ranger’s sustained damage, but you can mitigate nearly all of a thief’s burst with really fast reaction and smart play.

Maybe you guys should prioritize LB’s sustained dps then. As it stands, after you’ve blown the 2-5, every second you spend using your 1 a kitten dies.

As much as I like Rob as a dev, I think I would love nothing more than to seek him out repeatedly in WvW on every class I have and rip him apart just to showcase how far that ‘sustained dps’ is getting the class.

I wish we could simply not have refresh timers at all, and allow commanders the ability to ‘deconstruct’ siege when it was no longer needed. Then, when you hit the cap of siege for that type for a map, the one that hasn’t been used in the longest period of time would despawn in favor of the new one. That way anything that actually gets used would always be safe from despawning in that case (and commanders could deconstruct siege that was superfluous as well, including those siege weapons griefers lay down like rams on walls). Additionally, because only commanders could deconstruct, griefers would have to shell out 100g (and be very visible on the minimap as they do it, making them prone to being easily reported) to successfully despawn necessary siege.

Domanooch.1864:

Some do not consider doing fractals everyday for 2 years a grind.

Requiring someone to do fractals every day for 2 years to finish an achievement is insanity. The current 500/500 upper limit is perfectly fine, all it requires is to give the title “Fractal Frequenter”.

I’m not about to argue with you, but I will answer a few of your concerns.

@My Point: Group planning is a subtle art and it’s not an obvious thing. Zerker warriors aren’t bad, but they’re not the end-all-be-all either, and they can do way more damage than they normally do with appropriate team support.

@Mesmers in FotM: Clones by themselves are way more useful than you give them credit for. Against the Grawl boss on L48, a well-played Mesmer can solo him down 25% due to a combination of Feedback, clones, and maneuverability skills. Furthermore, don’t underestimate the power of Timewarp when Warriors have free melee reign over an encounter thanks to Guardian coverage.

They (ANet) already did a full investigation of drop rates from chests and things, and found no particular issues of note with them besides the tagging issue which they address awhile back.

If you have asked 200 unique groups about this (which is an insufficient polling size), and you are sure that you have received unbiased results (which you cannot be sure of), it unfortunately doesn’t mean anything. I get a Fractal skin 1 out of every 4 or so L48 runs. Someone in my group gets a Fractal skin in L48 3 out of every 4 runs I do, and I do a lot. My sample size is no better than yours; maybe my groups are just all always super lucky, and maybe you’re just super unlucky. But that’s the way RNG is, and assuming that something is wrong just because you’re on one end of the spectrum is crazy talk.

Most of the encounters in FotM at high levels (48) that typically wipe teams have nothing to do with the team make-up, honestly, assuming they are skilled players. It has more to do with their aggro management and positioning. I bring berserker Warriors and we do fine, I bring condition damage Engineers and we’re fine, I bring staff Eles and we’re fine.

What Haviz said a page back about having an anchor in your group is way more important than I think most of you are giving it credit for being. A group of 5 berserker Warriors for FotM (and in some other dungeons) is inferior when compared with a group that has 4 berserker Warriors and 1 Guardian. Furthermore, certain bosses in fractals reward certain playstyles more. Assuming perfect skill, I’d rather have 2 Warriors, a Mesmer and 2 Guardians for the Grawl boss than 4 Warriors and a Guardian. Sure it can be done with the latter group, but it is much less stressing with the former group and allows the Warriors more freedom to melee-smash the enemies than in the latter case where they melt under melee pressure.

I have multiple different classes that I run FotM 48 with, and they each serve different roles. My Guardian is bunker primarily for aggro management (relevant for Raving Asura boss and some others), but benefits the team heavily with 16 perma might stacks, stability, retaliation, permanent protection, regeneration, huge heals, aegis spam, and more. I am confident that my Guardian + 4 berserker Warriors deals more net dps under heavy pressure than 5 berserker Warriors could.

Suffice to say, the assumption that “berserker is squishy and sucks” is wrong. Furthermore, the misconception that everyone should only wear berserker gear if they are perfect players is also wrong. There is a much more subtle way to properly construct a team for different instances, and only a few posts in this thread so far have shown that the posters have insight in that regard. Ultimately, though, I say play what you want, and if your team is good enough it won’t matter and you’ll succeed anyway.

I, fortunately, was not banned, but I’m terrified. I don’t think I’ve done anything exploitative or banworthy, but then again, I can’t be sure that my normal gameplay doesn’t include something banworthy in the eyes of ANet.

Some disclosure and transparency with whatever the ban was, now that it has been closed, would be greatly appreciated. If we don’t know the details of the exploit, there’s a huge feeling that anyone could get banned at any time without their knowing something they did was wrong.

MastemaRose.6703:

Of they’re not on the list at all, does that mean they haven’t been active since before they started tracking?

This means they have not acquired an achievement point since the system was brought online a few weeks back. That does not necessarily mean they haven’t logged on, so use it as you will.

I would prefer a molten axe that ignites the tree in a conflagration as it gets chopped.

Rage The Numbers.7943:

MISS! Hi. The only issue I see is that this doesn’t list all 497 guild members, only 258.

This means they have not acquired an achievement point since the system was brought online a few weeks back.

Naturally infuse your item and then use this.

AlexRD.7914:

Like, if you know pets are squishy, give them a temporary toughness boost until you find a better solution. That was just an example, but stuff like that could be done.

Because those temporary buffs have game-wide ramifications that must be tested and analyzed just like the permanent buffs do. It is not as easy as slapping 500 toughness on all pets and pretending like that has zero impact on the rest of the game when it absolutely does.

Robert Hrouda.1327:

I’ve gotten in some trouble before about giving hints and releasing info early… so I’m going to leave that up to the people in charge if they want to do those things :x

You should suggest to them to actually post in these forums, then, because as of now you’re the only one who ever does.

Humposaurus.5764:

Atm it’s very hard to track inactive people in a maxed guild, since ANet removed the “Unknown” status with a few patches ago.

I had no idea they removed that, and was wondering why that never showed up anymore!

Ruprect.7260:

People are blowing this out of proportion. I don’t think most guild are gonna jump on and find everyone that has not been on for 2 weeks and give them the boot lol.

This is something that however could be used a few months down the road to start removing ppl that have been inactive for 3+ months.

Bingo.

joeytan.3865:

Even if Anet does not want to do anything about getting skins, at least please make the chance of drop of all skins equal.

They are. RNG is RNG.

Ephedrine.4521:

Gem prices are regulated. Look at the exchange rate screen in the game. When the market is left alone the line will be jagged after something of desire is available and users start trading in gold for gems the market spikes then locks up and goes straight lined which means outside influence controlling the market keeping the rate locked.

Haha! That’s funny, but no. It means that there is a larger dependent-variable axis, which means fluctuations are harder to see. It is a feature of plotting and has nothing to do with the prices themselves.

Bumping this up for the midweek! We’re doing a guild bounty tonight, so let me know somehow if you’re interested in tagging along! Everyone is invited!

Vorch.2985:

I see people who haven’t earned an achievement point since 3/26. I think leaderboards were added the 7th of april or something?

Remember they tracked them for a few weeks before releasing them to the public.

You people are being ridiculous. ANet already confirmed that duels are possible with custom arenas when those come out. Furthermore, players duel every night in WvW south of the Windmill in the BLs. If you want duels, get in WvW and coordinate on the forums; it’s easy.

Milennin.4825:

What’s BiS? Have no idea.

Best in Slot (BiS).

Buy ascended amulets with laurels. It’s the only way to get them, and they’re worth it.

This is great, but unfortunately it doesn’t track back before the leaderboards were active (this is why it doesn’t track past ~2 weeks ago). Thanks for the catch!

Azavin.2018:

After a much celebrated cleansing of siege on SoS’s Lowlands Keep due to server downtime, certain individuals are at it again building up a ton of siege in our keep – including multiple rams beneath our towers INSIDE our keep. Clearly this is intentional – we can only guess why he is doing it as he completely ignores everyone and continues to build

Happens to us, too. There’s this guy who goes around intentionally misaligning trebuchets, placing trebuchets randomly near the zerg to get them to waste supply, and throwing down tons of trebuchets in random places in general, like in lords’ rooms. It sucks, but all you can do is report and move on.

Rouven.7409:

Could you imagine anything differently – so that you might have wanted to keep it?

Thanks for the warm wishes! Probably if it were a sweet fire axe (Titans’ Vengeance is garbage) instead of an ice axe so I could use it on my Warrior. That or if the Necromancer axe skills were any better so that I felt it was benefiting my team to use it.

Ursan.7846:

Please inform us if it ever sells. Also, do you mind telling us what the exact price you listed for is? It’ll be interesting to get a feel for at what speed the Legendary market moves at.

From what I hear it’s super slow. I listed it at 2175g because, well, for anything under 2000 I feel players are severely undervaluing the account bound effort that goes into a legendary item (after factoring in listing price and the taxes). For exactly 2000g you walk away with less than 300g for every account bound part of the item assuming you buy-valued everything else on the market and got your Clovers in exactly 77 tries (statistically incredibly unlikely to happen). I think the only people who would list a legendary that low are people who are intentionally trying to lose out just to make some return on what they consider a mistaken crafting. (Or people who are wealthy enough to be flipping legendaries and thus never made the things themselves)

And yeah, it appears that I’ve already been undercut quite substantially, haha. I expect that low-sell price will sell much quicker, however, and is probably someone who flipped a Frostfang for major profit.

JJBigs.8456:

Retaliation should show damage being done on your screen. I know its doing alot but without seeing the numbers, its hard to notice exactly how much it helps. (Dont think it shows up as DPS at least)

It does show numbers to the player who applied the retaliation.

JJBigs.8456:

Old Tom is the best example of where reflects make no sense. Why should only certain skills stop his bolts? As a guardian, it seems completly ridiculous that wall of reflect does not reflect any of his projectiles. YES PROJECTILES. Sure shield avenger works but what is this game evolving into, “You can reflect some projectiles, and others you cant, even though they are projectiles too”.

For me, it’s totally okay when a projectile flies over a reflect/absorb. I consider that a mistake of the player for putting them in a bad position.

I do, however, completely agree with the point about Old Tom. It appears that his projectiles can be absorbed, but cannot be reflected. Perhaps this is to prevent the players from using this as a means of dps, but I think a better solution in that case would have been to simply have reflect skills absorb instead in this case (ie. not reflect back for dps). You have to admit that Feedback would be pretty insanely amazing against Old Tom if it reflected for damage.

While we’re talking about this fractal—Rob, please lower the HP of the bloody Ettin/Flame Shaman. They are not even a difficult fight, they just have a billion HP and it’s not fun. Thanks.

rchu.8945:

is that what Anet has stated regarding the RNG for fractal weapon skins, as in better chances at the 40 to 48 tier?

Yeah, it was confirmed forever ago. It’d be painful to try and scour the developer tracker for the exact post(s) since they were months ago, but they will be there if you’re motivated.

I think I’m at box cost and an extra 20 bucks. For me, considering the value of the game, it’s no problem. I mean, let’s face it, I’ve spent more money on Skyrim and its DLCs and gotten fewer hours of enjoyment out of that (and I consider those hours totally worth it), so no problems here.

Now imagine you had gotten a Fractal Greatsword or looted a precursor and got rolled back.

The only time I think it is useful is against those Godforged Hellstorms in CoF, because they simply melt themselves when they hit you and you have retal on.

This was only announced on the GERMAN forums, guys. I’m not sure if this actually affects the NA servers or not. We need Devon’s clarification.

Burn.5401:

I’ve gotten all my skins from that “tier” and no skins from 30+ or 40+.

LordByron.8369:

I usually see more skin drops on 20-28 than on 30-38.

RNG is RNG. That doesn’t make the chances from 20-28 any less garbage, it just means that you’re particularly lucky. Players should still strive to hit 40-48 and only run those because the chance is significantly better.

The only education that needs to happen here is that you need to educate yourself to not assume that the way you enjoy playing the game is the way everyone enjoys (or should enjoy) playing the game.

For me, skipping is an important mechanic in dungeons. Knowing when a fight is worth it in a time-sense and whether or not it can be safely skipped without lots of deaths is important. Sometimes, a dungeon is only fun at all because it has challenging skipping segments that I think are worth the risk, and that I know I can make work. A good example of that is TA Forward/Forward.

Anyway, this discussion has been done a million times before, so I won’t press further. Hopefully you feel better after yelling and screaming about it on the forums.

Ghedoriah.4290:

Or just do the easy thing – cap the enemy keeps first so they can’t put anyone into the jumping puzzle. Doing it any other way is just making it needlessly complicated.

It’s not easy bein’ greeeeeen. (Couldn’t resist)