Guild Wars 2

Durzlla.6295:

I’m pretty sure I out ranger as #2, but that’s cause I play an ele and know they need a little more love than us… But it’s pretty unanimous that ranger and ele are the 2 that need most work

Curiously, as someone who doesn’t play an ele, why is that? I /cheer inside when an ele joins my team. Those fire fields, blast finishers, ice bows and such assist me in melting everything on the screen. They seem absolutely amazing and I’d take them any day over… everything but a warrior. Strictly speaking, PvE and WvW.

1. Ranger
2. Warrior
3. Engineer

I don’t know about engineers honestly. But they definitely have a steep learning curve.

Everyone who was on that overflow during the event should be sent the completion rewards for a job well done.

Good job TTS!

Ack I forgot this really really really important one to my list (though it seems others have remembered):

Skin locker! As per described several times on this forum and on reddit.

(I find it interesting how desired guild halls/houses are. I can’t think of a system where they’d be interesting or useful, unless guild chat was removed entirely [though keeping some type of bullitan board system] and you’re meant to see your guildies at home base.)

1. Earning stat-swappability on exotic/ascended equipment

2. More “Fractal Capacitor”s – Earning items progressionally, and being able to show off your in-progress states.

3. Better rewards for Living Story completion consistency – If I completed x of y living story meta achievements (like, say, 11 of 13) in LS Season 1/2/3/etc, it means I’ve been playing consistently for a year and I really should get something legendary for it!

Extra: I’d add skills and traits (and the journey to get them, which is probably more important), but balance is something this game takes very seriously and I understand that new traits/skills cannot just be conjured up and released quickly in case they disrupt that balance. I would add it to my top 3, but I know that it is just wishful thinking.

My personal feelings…

Ascended Gear

• Acquisition Amulets, rings, and even my first back piece ended up being rather fun to earn. The back piece was the funnest, as upgrading the Fractal Capacitor felt rewarding and was progression in it’s own right.
• Acquisition: Armor and Weapons I gave up on weapons when the math was done out and it was clear just exactly how much gold was needed to craft to level 500. I would need to get at least two crafting professions up to 500 to complete my set – a task not deemed worth it for the cost. Although armor is more reasonable, and I only play one character, I play multiple builds, and I don’t want to open that can of ascended worms.
• Conflict of Interests Before ascended armor and, I believe, weapons came out, it was Legendary weapons changed to be stat-swappable. It was also announced to expect legendary trinkets and, eventually, legendary armor to boot. Legendary equipment takes an incredible amount of gold. I want to save gold from crafting ascended armor and weapons, and skip right to legendary.

I have also put off working on my legendary weapon (all material earned, save for the precursor, to which I have the gold to purchase) because I could have a stat-swappable ring or back piece instead. The weapon I may or may not use depending on the build, where as I will always be wearing the trinket or armor piece regardless of what I’m doing in the game.

But what if… there was a way to earn stat-swappability? Maybe I have to make a Knight’s coat and a Berserker’s coat, and throw them into the mystic forge to combine them, and out pops a Knight/Berserker’s coat. This would be amazing horizontal progression for single-character, multiple-build players like myself! (And boy would it clear up my inventory.) I will say, if the recipe conflicts with legendaries, I won’t pursue (i.e. Knight’s armor + 250 Vials of Powerful Blood).

Also as someone mentioned on page 1, and I lightly mentioned already, I would LOVE to see more progressional items in this game, like the Fractal Capacitor.

As a female, it does bother me. Not enough to ask/want it removed, but enough so that I want…

1.) More choices for female human medium armor. You get one extreme or the other. There’s SO little in between that it barely exists.

2.)Important! Skimpy men armor. If guys get a piece of digital girl candy to stare at, why can’t girls get ours as well?

You can have your underboob, but let me have my undernuts as compensation

I like Scarlet as a character. I find her interesting, and compelled to understand her motives as they’ve yet to be made clear.

6/25/13 was a very sad day….

neomagic.9056:

I’m not even from SBI, but this is the most disgusting thing i’ve seen. It totally goes against the integrity of the game.

I feel sorry for Borlis Pass whom will have to deal with this same double team and will finish 5th because of this alliance.

I’m from BP and I love the strategy between YB and EB. (I’d like to think it was planned, despite YB/EB’s denial.) I think this match-up is amazing and I love how the under dogs are slaying Goliath.

Anyways, if they apply the same strategy next week against us, it wouldn’t matter much. If we come in 3rd and EB in 2nd, we’ll tie with EB for League 4th place. And I would be absolutely okay with that. Heck, I’d prefer that.

Serenity.8246:

jadfang.6850:

I am in SBI an after playing all week seems pretty clear YB will win this one,all thanks to there teaming up with EB to form obviously well coordinated attacks at the same time.SBI sittin in SMC to try an defend multiple times attacks from both other servers at same time,watching EB run past YB zerg untouched.pretty obvious YB an EB teamed up to take us down cause they knew they couldn’t do it alone.so congradulations to YB for there shallow victory,cause we all know in a fair fight without EB’s help you never would have bet us

I’m sorry you are so bitter. It’s ok that you think it’s a shallow win. I’m sorry if your population decided to quit showing up after reset cause they felt they had this one or because there were no karma trains happening and people actually had to work for a win.

I’m sorry it’s hurt your pride.

Color me skeptical, but I have a hunch that you’re not really sorry.

Aitadis.8269:

We lost because of the new fractal thing, its no coincidence you guys got a wp on our bl the same day that patch came out. Also 50 vs 30 pugvsguild and spamming emotes? Even Ebay has more class than that.

So you’re saying, BP has a more dedicated WvW player base than CD? …That…. That sounds like a compliment. I think that is a compliment. Thank you

(I personally do not approve of /sit or /laugh, but nothing’s wrong with a good /wave or /salute or /surprised!)

[PINK] is a BP guild. It’s comprised of WvW players from various who all get together and tag up and run around to just have fun. If there’s a PINK on Tarnish Coast, BP’s PINK is completely unrelated It’s the same faces you’ve been seeing out there all week, just with a different tag.

Push harder Ebay. I want to see you guys finish second. If you do, that’ll push YB into league 2nd. YB, you should be helping ebay out! Win win for both of you

(I’m not from YB or EB or SBI. Actually I’m from BP, so feels a little weird cheering EB on. But this league upset is amazing!)

:( That’s disappointing to hear.

I hope they’re redoing the medium and heavy armor too. But, if they’re using the trench coat base for the medium, my expectations are incredibly low for myself enjoying it even if they did….

Shanna.4762:

SafiMoyo.5130:

I know this is incredibly radical, but please bear with me. What if they made… more non-tench coats for medium armor classes?
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((Please pardon my sarcasm. But really: I’m a girly girl, I’d like some more girly-girl choices. Excluding unboob and S&M get-ups.))

I know what you mean lol. I really love corsets & skirts, don’t necessarily have to be naked to be sexy etc. But there are indeed an over-abundance of coats.

I agree! I love the Scarlet pants (mini skirt and long socks/stockings) but I’ve tried every top with it. The only one I’ve liked, is another gemstore outfit I’m not going to spend $20 for just a set of pants and a shirt, have the rest thrown away or blocking up bank space, AND have to choose if this is going to cover my (main) WvW armor set, or my (main) PvE set.

I’d be tempted to buy it if it was sold in individual pieces, and be CRAZY tempted to buy it if I could have access to unlimited copies. Actually no, nix that, I WOULD buy them. Full set and all.

I know this is incredibly radical, but please bear with me. What if they made… more non-trench coats for medium armor classes?
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((Please pardon my sarcasm. But really: I’m a girly girl, I’d like some more girly-girl choices. Excluding unboob and S&M get-ups.))

Yeah, flame armor isn’t…….. cool.

….I will escort myself to the nearest exit now

Go YB, go! The weekdays have started, so it’s going to be difficult keeping up this steam. I’m not from YB or SBI or EB, but I am in the sliver league. This matchup is easily the most interesting one to stalk, and probably the best in the season thus far (right behind the race for second between BP and DB last week).

The unsportsman-like trolls are annoying, but there’s literally nothing you can do about them except reporting them. Talking about them only encourages them. Take screenshots, and email your complaints in in addition to using the in game tool.

Korossive.7085:

^ with that logic I’ll take away your legendary, hand you a precusor, and tell you: Congraj – you’re now “refreshed”!

Gl to you. Don’t take our achiv away.

Hah! Joke’s on you, I don’t even HAVE a legendary. So if I was handed a precursor, I’d be quite pleased

And I can make up terrible analogies that don’t apply to the problem too: This change is like Anet taking 10g from you to give you, and you alone, 1000g in like two weeks from now. Congraj!

ARI = agony resist infusion (1 AR per)

1 AR = 1 ARI
2 AR = 1 + 1 ARI = 2 ARIs
3 AR = 2 + 2 ARI = 1 + 1 + 1 +1 ARI = 4 ARIs
4 AR = 3 + 3 = 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 8 ARIs

Formula:
x AR = 2^(x-1) ARIs

5 AR = 16 ARIs
Two 5 ARs = 16*2 = 32 ARIs for a total of 10 AR

10 AR = 2^9 = 512 ARIs

Conclusion: AR progression is NOT going to be easy! Multi slots are a huge advantage over single slots.

This isn’t a complaint thread, just showing how difficult leveling up AR is going to be. Using a flat 10 AR infusion is going to require 16x as many ARIs as getting two 5 ARs. If you get 1 per run… well you can do the rest of the math

Kelly.5293:

I know people are upset with account wide and the lvl 30 roll back. Self included. Lets not beat each other up but rather explain why it’s an issue.

They are taking our hard work away and haven’t even mentioned any great new rewards, reward systems or compensation. The tonic is really a joke.

Think of it this way. What if they rolled all of your characters back to level 30 and said do it again but don’t worry it’s account bound this time. I think you would be annoyed also.

And no they are making the curve to level 50 easier they said not harder

“We fixed a number of bugs and made lots of balance changes to existing fractals. Also the difficulty scaling has been tweaked overall to create a slightly less difficult curve up to 50. "

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/fractured/Fractured-Pro-Con-Suggestion-Thread/first#post3233898

That sounds fun to me actually I’d love to level my ranger again. Plus, I get to keep all the loot and mats and relics and AR that I earned, so I’m already way ahead of the curve! Doesn’t really sound like a punishment to me, since everyone else is going to be at my level leveling too. It sounds refreshing. Plus it won’t take that long to get to 80 again.

As a female player, this bothers me a lot. At first I had a GS on my ranger, and I figured it was ranger specific. I was okay with it—I even liked it. It’s a ranger after all.

Then I made a warrior, and found that she holds it the same way. Soooooooooo disappointed to find out that this was a female-specific animation! I’m a warrior, I should be able to hold this sword like a warrior, not like it’s too big for my girlish girly girl wuss strength.

I don’t understand what the problem is. All the BL’s are the same; does it really matter what color you are? Is the problem because of those JP achievements and map completion?

Curo.2483:

[snip]

This is what I’ve been dreaming of for NSP since the summer. Unfortunately, there is a lot of OLD hatred from things that happened before I even joined the server (March), and this seems to get in the way of something as simple as getting us on the same VOIP. People don’t want to put the past behind, and when new players join us, they just see disorganization and conflict, so they lose all care and hope for WvW.

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Hi Curo

I’m from BP, and I have to say… really, push for that united VoIP. It’s important. I was part of BP before we had one, and am, of course, still part of BP now. The united VoIP has made WvW so so so so so much more enjoyable for me. I don’t belong to a wvw-focused guild (tried it, several times, but it wasn’t for me). Instead, I can hop onto wvw and join our, say, Blue BL channel and fit right in. Or if a group wants to branch off, I can go join their guild channel. (I’ve never been asked to leave a guild channel for not being a member of the guild.)

I think this was the most important step BP took to pull the server together. (And the TS was advertised a LOT LOT LOT when it was new too. Took me a while to come around to joining it, but with the constant bombarding ads for it, I found I could sit back, not talk, and just take orders. And not die nearly as much. AND get WAY more loot bags, towers, and keeps! And have fun because of the human interaction, even if I mostly just listen.)

I too am also very sad. I tend to run Longbow now with 1500 range, but I would rather run the Shortbow with 1200 range.

1. Massive world events (ala Tequatl). What went right, and where improvements can be made.

2. Crafting from 400-500 (including ascended materials)

3. Living story feedback

4. PvE class balance and current metas

Lick Wounds has been failing me. Pet will run to my dying body, stand over me, and watch A few months back, there was a bug where lick wounds and search and rescue would fail on uneven ground. This was fixed, but perhaps it was un-fixed in another patch?

1. Class balancing (wvw focused)

2. WvW population balancing ( a case of the “easier said than done!”s, but worth discussing)

Chris – Thank you so much for your time. I won’t pretend I’ve read through all of this thread, because it’s pretty long. The two things that are always on my mind though aren’t new “issues”, so they may have already been addressed in this thread.

1. There have been many topics on this one, but it’s such a wonderful idea and suits the GW2 model, that I feel like the only reason it hasn’t been implemented is due to technical barriers: Namely, a “PvE locker” of sorts. For the first time since the Living Story was launched, I don’t really want to finish the current Living Story achievement. I mean, the achievement points are nice, but I have to ask myself, do I really have the room for another skin that I don’t plan on using? I WANT to collect these things. I’d use transmutation crystals if I could—just to hold onto the things I’ve collected. This is the #1 thing I want in this game, even more than….

2. Build diversity. I hear so much complaint on the forums about GW2’s new turn for alt unfriendliness. Well, I play one character, so this doesn’t effect me. But I share their concern. This game just isn’t meant to be played with multiple builds. Sure, you can pay the gold/tokens/laurels for another set of armor, but storing it and accessing it is such a pain. Even before ascended gear, I can say honestly that throughout the year that I’ve played this game, I’ve stayed with one single build because of the cost and storage of changing it.

I know a solution is in the pipeline: Legendary armor and trinkets. THEN we can have build diversity. And I want it so bad. But, can’t we bridge the gap? Perhaps a Mystic Forge recipe where you can, say, throw an Exotic Medium Berserker Shoulderpad and an Exotic Medium Cleric Shoulderpad, along with some additional ingredient, and get back an Exotic Medium Shoulderpad in which you can switch between berserker and cleric’s when out of combat. This would be fun, I think, to collect and earn these stats. Gotta catch ’em all

3. I don’t mind ascended gear. Many people seem against it, but I actually like the idea. With that said though, I don’t like the execution. Particularly with ascended weapons. I’m not sure what went wrong, but there’s something wrong with the balance. I don’t think I should have 100 bloodstone bricks, but only 10 dragonite thingies (and even less of that other one). I delete bloodstone dust now, and I’m going to get to a point in the near future where I’ll be deleting dragonite, and then later the other T7 mat as well. I hope that the ascended armor fixes this imbalance (maybe by requiring more bloodstone bricks than the others?) Either way, there will be a point when this mat is useless and clogs up one’s inventory. But my bigger concern is that crafting from 400-500 is incredibly boring, tedious, and expensive. It took me longer than those who were very excited, but I did craft quickly from 400-450 using elder wood refinement from 400-425, then exotics from 425-450. Now I’ve just been refining, and I have so many T7 mats that I’ll never use, and I’m at 471. At this point, I don’t want to pay the cost of crafting the rest of the way to 500. I’ve already been fortunate enough to get 2 ascended weapon boxes (neither of the stats I truly want, but I’m not going to complain about that!) and the cost vs return is too high at the moment. I suspect other methods of obtaining these ascended weapons will come into play. Or, eventually, I’ll find the box with the stuff I want. I felt that ascended trinkets (aside from the backpiece) was done perfectly. I, for one, enjoyed the time gated content that meant you had to work consistently, not grind it out in one evening. (And I did enjoy getting my ascended backpiece the first time, but blah blah alternate builds, blah. In short, I don’t want to do it again. And again. And again.)

That said, I’m incredibly optimistic about the game. I don’t like everything, and my dream would be to see quality of life patches having a higher priority, but this game is truly amazing. I hope that, someday, PvE Lockers find their way into the game (and are flexible). And I can rest knowing that at least Legendary equipment will allow for the build diversity that I want. I’m also sure that as T7 mats become cumbersome and unneeded by players, there will definitely be some sort of fix, be it more recipes that use them, and/or the ability to sell them to a vendor for some small profit.

This thread is for positive and constructive brainstorming on ways in which to (1) create WvW population balance or to (2) prevent the further imbalance.

Remember: Although the game designers would LOVE to implement certain processes, the dev team will often step in to let them know that their solution isn’t viable for technical reasons. We are black box brainstorming, but consider the technical side to the ideas you’re presenting. Even the most simple of ideas can turn out to be quite complex or impossible.

All ideas will have some downside, be it that the problem isn’t solved with the proposed solution (even the best of designers can fail to predict how their idea will play out when presented to thousands of players), and it is good to point out the flaws you see in your own ideas so that they can be addressed or solved by others in the community. Benefits are also important to highlight, as they’re sure to be missed by someone.

Here’s one of mine:

Scrap paid transfers. You cannot pay gems to transfer from server A to server B. Instead, each new account is given 2-3 free transfers that they can use. Once these transfers are used up, the player can no longer move. Each year, on the account’s birthday, the account is rewarded +1 transfers. There is a hard cap at +3 transfers, so any additional earned would go to waste.

Benefits:

• Players can understand the game before they figure out where they want to live.
• Players who join the game and find out that they have friends playing the game already, can transfer to be part of the same server as their friend.
• Players can experience a couple wvw communities before choosing one to stay in.
• Guilds are discouraged from mass-transferring: People in the guild may have already run out of their transfers, and so they would need to decide if they’re going to stay or going to leave people behind. Most guilds that I’ve been a part of wouldn’t dream leaving their guildies behind.
• With the +1 transfer a year, you do have a “get out of jail free” card, so to speak.
• A hard cap would mean less transfers by virtue of the inflexibility of the system. You cannot jump ship due to some drama—be it internal server drama, or external system-causing drama (ie, leagues). Instead, you’ll have to tough it out and then decide if you still wish to transfer.

Disadvantages:

• Transfers will still happen. Imbalance is not solved, only dampered.
• $$->Gems->Transfer is one method Anet employees get their paychecks from. This system would eliminate the need to pay. Alternative methods would be that you’d buy your transfer passes and still be limited to one a year, or you could buy as many transfers a year as you would like, but you couldn’t Gold->Gem it, only $$->Transfer.

Your turn!

For Ranger: Staff, but in the form of a quarterstaff. A weapon that’s primary function is CC (knock downs, knock backs, stuns, dazes). Low attack power, but whose function is to try locking the enemy so your pet can cut in and do the real damage.

Or hammer. Hammer could be very fun too.

I like this thread

But it’s very difficult to point out things that are done right. When something is done right, you don’t notice it or you grow used to it. Especially if you don’t have any point of comparison.

Someone was telling me about how WoW doesn’t have waypoints, and it blew my mind. “How,” I asked, “do you gather together in one area easily then?” thinking about guild missions, and how you need to transfer a truck full of people from one place to another.

“It doesn’t have dynamic events,” I was told. And though I’ve played other MMOs before, I was still confused. I’ve grown so used to this world, that imagining another, where the open world isn’t so… worldly, blew my mind.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

Talindra.4958:

Also, the loot …… tell me, all players, if you are happy with the loot with the amount of time you spent in getting this dragon slayed!

It takes 15 minutes of your time. I waste more time in LA playing with Zommoros, or on TC learning how to RP correctly.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve spent at least 15 hours this week trying to slay this beast. Between waiting for him to proc, trying to get out of overflow, and failed after failed attempt.

Yes. I’m frustrated. Not with the dragon’s difficulty, but with the overflow system coupled with the spawn rate. I’ve spent more time not playing this game (standing around and waiting) than I ever have before, by a long shot.

This would be very interesting, especially with a (precision, power, healing power) armor set. I would love to play it.

So tonight’s run is over. Lots learned and there was improvement. If you want to be known when we run this again, reach out to Nekomata to join [TS], or add me to your friends list and I’ll be sure to whisper you when it happens.

Take care!

I agree. We’re going to keep using Tinychat today because of the accessibility (you don’t need to download anything), but we’ve found a place to host this on TS in the future.

And when I say “we”, I mean [TS] Tequatl Slayers. Contact Nekomata.3147 if you’re interested in joining.

We’re ramping up another go, so keep on coming people! Let’s queue overflow again!

Overflow. No server The land where everyone is welcome.

We were able to get Teq to under 25% but failed the battery at the last second. Had we gotten it, we probably would have won the fight, even though the bonewall went up twice.

We’re going again, the dedicated and the organized people are staying, but some spots on the overflow will likely be opening up. Join us for attempt 2. We did great the last time; this time will be even better!

Our overflow is now full. You might still be able to get in if you’re persistent.

We have at LEAST 90 people in the map, and are active in VoIP. Hurry before he gets here, or the overflow fills up

The group is looking great. Keep coming! Let’s kill a dragon today.

Overflow is filling up fast – get here while you can!

North America,
You are invited to fight Tequatl with us in overflow if you will do the following:

- Listen to the commanders
- Join us in our VoIP
- WP when you’re defeated
- Bring your PVT gear if you’re in the zerg (alternatively, know how to use your dodges)

Join on me and then move over. If my party is full, try again. Please leave the party as soon as you get over. Post here if you’re open to help more people move over and I’ll add your name.

We have Tequatl Slayers here, ready to organize.
Edit: We apparently have an Anet visitor too

Avatara.1042:

zamalek.2154:

Lucky.9421:

I don’t get it.

Really? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek

And?

Yeah, I don’t get it either, still.

I wonder how this will work 3 months from now when people aren’t camping Sparkfly for the event to proc. I mean, you can’t just run there without an organized group and zerg2win, so you need to have a group/strategy set up. God forbid Teq spawns while you’re in the middle of organizing that strategy. Then after you have to stand around and…. just wait.

There should be an event chain, like there are with temple runs and the Queen Karka. It only makes sense.

Please add me too

Please invite, I follow directions well

Do want. It’s much needed to be able to see boons and condis on pets (for the ranger at least) like you can on teammates, and it would really help us to see what our pet plans on doing next to help synergize with the critter. Heck, it’d make F2 less frustrating if we could see that our pet plans on doing X and Y, then F2, or it won’t do F2 because it’s too busy doing these other things.

This would be a wonderful option menu to be able to add in once a player gets comfortable with their ranger and the game itself. I know the devs want to keep things simple, and I agree they should, but adding this functionality as an option to us ranger would be the best of both worlds.

Fun changes! I main a ranger, so my focus is on their changes specifically.

I agree with Holland above – Sick ‘em is very buggy in its current state. I would love for a new reason to bring this shout with me, but until I know that it’s reliable, it might stay off my utility belt.

No, this probably won’t be a skill I kept on my bar 24/7 – however, utilities should be changed around depending on the challenge faced. You bet I’ll bring Sick ‘Em along for the Moss Man fight, and with WvW bloodlust, I’m bringing it with me there when thieves do their annoying thief thing. This looks like a fun change, and I anticipate future balancing to bring this ability up to a point of usefulness. (Probably will take a couple iterations to balance it just right.)

And as far as the health boost to minions – that’s pretty great news. It doesn’t fix the problems, but it’s still a nice head start. It makes me want to use spirits again. I ask that in PvE and WvW though, that spirits don’t die after 60 seconds and act more like necro pets (go on CD upon death). I’ve stopped running with them even before this latest patch because oh my goodness is the re-summoning annoying. Perhaps add this to the grandmaster spirit trait – spirit unbound and no spirit suicide for PvE?

EDIT: I forgot to add something important! I mentioned Sick ‘em is bugged (or very picky) and for that reason I don’t want to use it… But you see, as a ranger player, it’s so important for me to know what my pet’s status is. What boons it has, what conditions it has, and I just can’t with this current system. Please allow me to add my pet to my party or something, so I can see their status. So I can see if they have the sick ‘em “boon”, if I canceled it or if the timer ran out. How many stacks of might did Rampage as One give my pet? Should I heal up my pet because their boons are so great, or just swap pets because they’re a blank slate? And what about the ranger trait that increases our bond with our pet? I’ve never used that trait because I have no idea what it does (the tool tip is unclear, [“increases bond every time you kill a foe”???]) nor can I see it. This transparency is important and falls in line with the changes aimed for this update. Please, if we can somehow get the option to view our pet’s status without selecting the pet mid-combat, all rangers would be incredibly grateful.