I’m pretty sure it was Richard Dawkins who once said (paraphrased)
“The problem with democracy is that it teaches all views are equally valid. One persons ignorance is as valuable as another person’s knowledge”
Unfortunately the unwashed masses have already decided “they know what’s going on with the economy” so no matter what the economists tell them they arn’t going to believe it. They “know” the market is being manipulated, and they “know” bots are their real friend because it reduces T5 prices, and they “know” arenanet is controlling the gem market to make life suck no matter how much evidence to the contrary is presented.
I remember a Dev article/Vblog talking about healing is the worst type of support and that CC and proactive protection was the best. Well GW1 did that really well, you had prot monks, blinding-based or ward eles, anti-melee necros, mesmers with anti caster spells etc…
GW2 seems really lacking in it’s support aspect, and any healing/support you give is often just spammed on cooldown, rather than a precise time. There is no protective spirit/infuse in this game. There aren’t many interupts and they don’t “feel” as good as in GW1 (guess thats my opinion though). Oh and lets not forget all bosses are resistant to CC effects, so you can’t really support via CC on any boss.
All in all, there is very little in the way of healing/support in this game, and any healing/support there is is often not very skill oriented, just cooldown oriented.
You obviously don’t play a mesmer or guardian :p
Timing feedback/temporal curtain/iWarden etc etc etc is an artform where failure can mean difference between massive pain for the entire party and a trivialised fight. Likewise being aware of allies about to take it on the chin and dropping aegis on them or interuppting the foes attack saves lives.
Very few boons can reach 100% uptime, knowing when to deploy AoE protection/regen to take pressure off injured players or blinding foes makes them far far more effective than simply spamming the boons non-stop.
But most of Europe is in CEST (summer time) in the summer which is GMT +2, and thus the confusion starts. (ok, this is not a problem now, but maybe in the future)
Um… Europe is in summer time in the middle of winter? – Are you sure :p
I’ve been saying it for a while. Supply of T5 materials have quadrupled across the board and vastly exceeds demand now. The last few bastions are about to fall; supply just spiked way above demand for potent poison in the last few hours and continues to rise. If action isn’t taken soon the economy is going to get depressed again by shedloads of cheap materials (The only silver lining to this being the opportunity that present for investment… but thats only worth it is arenanet actually kills the bots one day)
I’ve got good business models now for both bot depressed and normal environments but it’s bloody annoying having to keep restructuring my business strategy every few weeks as the bots appear and are removed.
Arenanet needs to be more pro-active with bots, especially now people have realised that the post-bot inflation period is rather painful; people are literally not reporting bots anymore because they don’t want more gold for T5 and T6 mats – it’s like telling a kid to take some disgusting medicine. It’s good for them but they arn’t going to take it willingly.
Pshht. Zojja copied my outfit and you don’t hear me complaining…
I was a professor at the college of synergetics when she was still learning how to charge ether crystals (Which for Asura is shortly before walking, and slightly after learning how to program a VCR).
Tixx with his flying magical workshop staffed by Christmas elves Asura with presents for all. Or Santa Claws, the unquenchably merry Norn wrapped in bloodstained red furs and in his flying* dolyak sled bringing the spirit of the moot to all tyria
Only flying by virtue of being driven with reckless abandon over the shiverpeaks
Do not worry yourselves colleagues. As has already been seen with skritt test subjects, bookahs will recognize any article of asuran design as highly valuable – it is my analysis that these ‘presents’ going to cities outside of Rata Sum are none other than asuran trash.
Discharged ether crystals, metamagical secretions, worn hyperkinetic bearrings – all that glitters is not gold, but it can certainly be traded as such to the ignorant savages in faraway lands.
I have to say I’m really enjoying my tanky/support guardian; getting right in there on the frontline and acting heroic, saving people with my protection/aegis boons and incapacitating my foes and standing between them and pain, while at the same time being able to take on several times my number of enemies.
It so perfectly melds role of protector with a level in kitten
To clear up the confusion, in the scene there is an Asura researcher proposing her new hypothesis that head/body size ratio is directly proportional to intelligence (Complete with a new constant named after herself :p)
Listing off the races she concludes Charr must be second smartest as they have the second biggest head relative to their size; nothing to do with their technological advancement or behaviour
If by dedication you mean buying gold from 3rd party sites then yey! No normal person would be able to get 2 legendary weapons in this short amount of time unless they got huge help from within the guild/other players/buying gems from Anet and converting them to gold or buying gold from gold sellers.
Sorry but its true.
Maybe. But I hear people accusing traders (Including me) of buying gold, botting or cheating so often I’m a bit more prone to reserving judgement these days on how people got their wealth exactly. I think it’s doable if you traded the right stuff at the right time, maybe threw $20 into gems to kickstart your investment funds early in.
While it’s possible to play a support guy and healer in GW2; all players must pull their weight. Whereas OP likes to sit on the back line fighting people’s conditions and health bars while staying out of the action.
That play style is not an option; I won’t judge whether that playstyle is a good or bad thing to want, but it is absent and non-replicable in GW2. DPS is balanced to assume all party members are dealling some amount of damage. A pure support player is almost a complete deadweight.
Enemies could be flagged. NWN (And Gamebryo games too I think) in the toolset had a flagging system whereby you could mark certain NPCs as being plot critical.
Those NPCs could not be affected in such a way that’d render their body unlootable (ie they couldn’t be gibbed, phased out of reality, polymorphed, thrown into bottomless voids etc)
A similar approach here would be fine; the only remaining issue is the potential trivialisation of fights; like in Skyrim sometimes faced with an overwhelming difficult mob for your level, you might just knock him off a cliff and instant kill; thats fine for a game like Skyrim but in an MMO it can result in cheese strategies.
Yes. Open your hero panel (press H), and in the top left above your armour slots is a little eyedropper icon, click that and you’ll go into dye mode where you can change your armour dyes freely.
As the game goes on you’ll likely find or buy additional dyes too.
They certainly work (I have seen this firsthand scoring 9 rares in 2 plinx runs prior to the nerf!), but as morphemass points out it’s probably NOT cost effective
Never thought I’d say this, but I’m actually happy to see the return of the bots. Not fond of the other hacks/cheats, but a force out there keeping prices reasonable is fine with me.
Except if all the T5 and T6 materials sell high, it means you get more gold in your pocket, so the T5 and t6 materials don’t seem high, and you have more gold to spend on waypoints, cultural armour and other goodies.
The problem is that each time the bots depress the market, everyone gets shafted, the bots get banned, prices inevitably rise and then the prices rise and your gold hasn’t risen with it (Unless you’re a trader and being trading up through this). What we need is a STABLE economy.
If it stabilises low – ie bots are here to stay; then things like T3 will be harder for you to obtain and waypoints are a pain. If it stabilises high, you can afford more nice things like repairs and waypoint travel without worrying about breaking the bank.
Sadly looking at other classes right now I don’t hold much hope of this being looked into any time soon. Mesmer has been similarly backed into a corner in terms of build options by nerfs to their greatsword and phantasms (if you’re not using sword/offhand/staff and running a shatter build, you’re playing ineffectively).
Since they kicked symbol of wrath in the head and zeal line continued to suck it continues to push people towards AH/Hammer.
What alarms me is they don’t seem to be doing much to encourage people to branch out; applying nerfs to the skills people arn’t using and encouraging people to stick with the ones that are already overused (See example: Ranger traps, Mesmer Phantasms, Engineer turrets)
Over the course of a day I typically make 10-20g from trading depending on market conditions (Rising over time due to increasing funds with which to trade). Actual time spent on the trade floor is about 20 minutes; strictly speaking that would make it like 30-60g an “hour” but the reality if I spent an hour solid on the trade floor with this strategy I would not make 30-60g, the transactions play out over a long time-frame.
Being a mesmer I can’t farm like many classes, but I make maybe 3-5g a day futzing about helping friends with dungeons and exploring. I’m currently levelling a guardian alt and plan to do a bit of farming with them.
Long time past i used to spend a lot more of my time on the trade floor and used to make a lot more gold but wasn’t actually playing the game much :p – which led to a revision of my trading strategy hence I now only need spend 20 minutes over the course of a day to make a reasonable wad of cash. I already have T3 armour for my main, a greatsaw for my guardian and no plans to chase a legend so I don’t mind not being so much of a power trader these days
There’s still 5000 people trying to buy 550 items. The price’ll continue to rise but slower, until supply exceeds demand price typically will continue to rise.
On a side note I think you’ll find most traders don’t own legendary weapons… I can think of way better things to do with my gold than buy some plastic toy sword; such as buying materials cheap to sell back to the fools who’ll pay me for the parts to make a plastic toy sword.
It’s rather difficult to keep a straight face whilst reading that last part there…
You don’t actually believe that a pile of imaginary gold has more inherent worth than a plastic toy sword, do you?
If anything, in a fantasy game of floppy-eared gremlin geniuses and seething, rage-fuelled techno kitties all clambering over one another to hurl magical fireballs at purple dragons, the plastic toy sword is the preferable collectible, because at least you can stick it in the monsters to make them stop trying to eat you. Plus it gets you out into the healthy, illusionary fresh air.
Whereas pretending to be a serious trader parked in a whimsical upturned boat market on a pile of pretend coins is just a tad, errm, pitiable…
Of course a toy sword is no more valuable than a bunch’ve imaginary coins.
But I can use those imaginary coins to buy a wide range of neat imaginary things to make my fun times in the game even more fun for a great deal less than the plastic sword. If these threads about the economy prove anything it is that many people seeking imaginary plastic swords are not actually happy
Whereas I am having fun trading imaginary gold, and having fun with the imaginary fruits of my trading. I’d say that a lot less pitiable than stressing out over having to spend hours doing stuff I hate, for an imaginary object. Incidentally, I spend around 20 minutes a day actually trading, I’ve refined my processes by this stage that I don’t have to spend all my time hunched over the trading post in Rata Sum. I just pop in a few times a day, update my orders and gone again, dungeoning, questing, helping friends, exploring, WvWing… just not farming; which I’m super happy about.
The price of T5 and T6 materials (and subsequently exotics, rares and ectos) are all dropping and have been for nearly a week solid. Where’s this overall price rise the Op speaks of?
There’s been a rise in some luxury items like certain precursors, dyes, and a few market manipulation attempts. Hell even the dyes it’s only the top end dyes that are rising, the generic dyes are still 30-50 copper each, people just want the fancy schmasy stuff like abyss and celestial.
I guess if you want to wear celestial abyssal dyed T3 ascended armour to go with your eternity blade yes the market is bad. But if your sights are a bit more realistic life is good.
And now add to your statement the fact that “when supply of cores/lodestones increases from 300 to 550” in several days, the price rises still. And try to explain it, smart one
There’s still 5000 people trying to buy 550 items. The price’ll continue to rise but slower, until supply exceeds demand price typically will continue to rise.
On a side note I think you’ll find most traders don’t own legendary weapons… I can think of way better things to do with my gold than buy some plastic toy sword; such as buying materials cheap to sell back to the fools who’ll pay me for the parts to make a plastic toy sword.
See this is the challenge MMo devs have to deal with. i personally loathe the CoF armour it’s so impractical and silly… i mean you’re ON FIRE xD
Yet a lot of people love it and I respect that because if I’ve learned anything in MMO’s over the years it’s that people have an amazing variety of different tastes and I find that fascinating to see.
I’m sure a lot of folks hate my character’s outfit even though i love it
I think we can safely say the bots need fixing again.
In the last 5 days supply of all materials has shot up, way beyond demand, and prices or T5 mats are rapidly falling towards an equilibrium of ~around 1 silver per unit.
We’re looking at another flood of supply creating a barrier of cheap materials that’ll take weeks to clear if not dealt with quickly. That’s good if you’re a newbie crafter of course, but this isn’t the “real” market environment the bots have reached critical mass and dominated the markets again. We’re back to where we were before the mass bannings almost
I have experienced some mini rollback like events too in the last few weeks though in my case they worked in reverse; items I had sold re-reappeared in my bank even though I’d been paid for their sale. (Nothing major, two dozen T5 mats. But it illustrates something weirds gone on recently. I can imagine a scenario where I’d obtained an item or gold and the same rollback effect then deleted it)
You’re over-thinking it… it’s not about democracy or what’s fair. It’s about keeping stuff ordered; the only person who needs to be guild leader is the guild leader :p
Your officers can be delegated all other tasks, like recruitment, build queues, bank etc. I can’t imagine any reason you’d elect a second GL, especially one who you can’t trust.
There are plenty of gold sinks in this game. Taking wp costs out would not destroy the economy.
Yet waypoint travel is the most frequent. Unless you’re prone to dying a lot (I die maybe once a day on average), your daily travel cost will be higher than rez cost.
Regular traders will sink loads more gold into trading taxes. But the majority of players are not day traders, so again this sink doesn’t much apply to them, then you have purchased gear such as cultural and faction skins. These are big sinks but infrequently purchased.
Overall travel costs is probably one of the single largest sinks in the game, yet despite this the game as to be expected shows signs of inflation. Do you really think we have enough sinks, let alone enough spare sink capacity to eliminate it?
Is also invaluable since you can research past pricing of an item to get a feel for it’s upper and lower limit instead of just it’s current value, this’ll allow you to squeeze a larger margin out of your trades.
Click the link on the original post. Watch the video. Become enlightened.
Doesn’t explain anything. Mesmer’s have some of the most complex attack chains in the game, they have a distinct lack of foo strategies especially since the GS got broken.
If you want foo, try warrior. (Hundred blades, ????, PROFIT!)
You are a smart man. I am sure you already know the blatant market manipulation that goes on..
And it doesn’t work.
Someone bought up most the black dye for like 15-20g a piece the other day and tried jack the price to 34g – within minutes the price was back down to 20g. There just isn’t a market for 34g even with all the supply in his pocket.
Market manipulation is of limited effectiveness, best case scenario is the price take a few hours to renormalise during which time you manage to offload a decent portion due to desperation on the part of the buyers and not setting the price into pants-on-head-crazy territory.
Occasionally, just occasionally the price sticks above it’s previous position (ie chocolate, butter) and that is less to do with it being overpriced and mroe that the old price was depressed due to a backlog of cheap stock
They’re described as giving birth “the same way as humans” according to the official wiki, though the citation attached to that claim doesn’t say any such thing: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura
It did occur to me the other day that humans have enough trouble with giving birth to babies with such large heads. Asura on the other hand… well let’s just say the head/hip ratio isn’t exactly small xD
I’d tend to agree but you also have to remember DPS isn’t as simple as raw numbers.
Take for example thieves and mesmers. Their melee DPS is somewhat inferior to guardian or warrior and they have to contend with being squishies in melee range.
But they deal isn’t one sided, they can drop a huge amount of damage in a short timespan (followed by a cooldown) and supported by controls and utilities that make their damage spike hard to avoid, for example thief’s backstab from stealth, or a mesmer’s 6-clone shatterspike.
So it’s not entirely black and white; tanky classes get high overall damage but reduced utility and range. Glassy classes get stronger ranged and melee damage that trends towards spikes (and the tools to pull off a spike) so their reduced melee survivability is less of a factor
Ranged should never be as good as melee, because it’s that much harder for a melee class to counter a ranged one than vice versa (Ask yourself why in the real world wars are fought almost entirely at range)
A party kicked me near the end of CoE to make room for their own guildy. However they weren’t able to down subject alpha; not realising the extent to which I had been carrying them. In the 30 minutes between the booting a few of their team had quit, and I’d formed a new party when I returned to the instance it was still linked to my old parties instance, and half of my new team could enter so we now had two teams (albeit split in half) in once instance.
We reached the end and there was these last 2 members of the kitten guild practically begging us to help them. We gave themsome choice words and a cold shoulder til they left and then did the final battle and got our tokens; for the guys who joined my party late it was the easiest CoE run ever since the entire instance up to that point was done for them :p
Probably. JP indicated that, assuming they work, the critical mesmer fixes to phantasmal berserker and delayed phantasm attacks will be in the build on the 14th
No doubt if other classes have received fixes we’ll see them in that build too.
I am still puzzled HOW exactly the bloodstone sacrifices were able to power up the Komalie. The souls of ascension-worthy people were required to keep the batteries charged – ok, got it. But how the Maguuman bloodstone was able to transfer the captured power of the souls to a door in the Ring of Fire?
If you observed over the bloodstone there were floating crystalline objects. These same obejcts are seeing powering the barrier over the door of khomali, at the docks of the khomali base facility there is also a number of the devices being stored and shattering one of them releases a chosen’s soul
Basiclly those are your batteries and how the power was transferred; by boat in giant crystalline devices.
– tiny floating platforms over some sort’ve chasm.