Guild Wars 2

surmises

Close enough to “I can’t play MY way.”

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Rebound.3409:

Kantharr.2308:

Plot Twist: Rytlock becomes evil and we have to fight him.

That would be the lamest and saddest plot twist even a kindergarden could come up with

Improvement: Rytlock cannot see that we are his friends, and we are forced to fight him, until we beseech him to take off the blindfold.

What makes you think ANet numbers the badges? That’s all Dulfy and her guide, to follow her video.

I don’t mean to come down kitten ya, Zax; just that these things cost ridiculous amounts of materials to make, and you don’t want to have to do it twice.

Allow me to speak for the grand majority.

ahem

I ain’t learning this kittening list.

Get more creative than regurgitating popular names.

koff
The first rule of Royal Club is, you DO NOT TALK ABOUT ROYAL CLUB!

Meh. Gimme an electric

My new theory is it will be a long lost descendant of the founder of the White Mantle – Saul E’Alessio

Apaulos Flash.2164:

What would be awesome….is to have many of the special GW1 weapons start showing up in GW2 as ancient weapons. Maybe through quests or helping NPC explorers search for them. I remember the fun i had getting Kerrsh’s staff.

This would be a great way to reintroduce the missing Worn Voltaic Spear skin.

Junkpile.7439:

Wonder when wvw players get free ascended armor. Kind of silly that PvE players always get super rewards.

You didn’t get yours? I picked up my free ascended Cav staff there a few months back.

Guess you need to find the correct Keep Lord. ;D

fracture.9754:

Thank you!

So, Claw Island, Silverwastes, Dry Top and Southsun Cove are the maps that are not marked as such on the map right? Or are there more of them?

P.S.: The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed <3

Chantry of Secrets meets this description. Hidden Garden may as well.

Did they have to?

dlonie.6547:

Guhracie.3419:

I’m just going to leave this here…

Yeah, it’s so whiny to expect people to mean what they say. Super unreasonable.

Sorry about killing your thread, Guhracie. I really thought my post there was relevant :-/ I was sad to see it locked.

I still feel bad for Gaile. It feels like after the communication blow-up, they just shoved her outside of the ArenaNet fortress of silence, bound and gagged, and told her to do a little dance to keep us entertained. As much as I’d like to see the things she’s said in that thread come true, it’s not up to her to make them happen. :-(

<3 Gaile, even though I’ve been a kitty to you sometimes!

Her successopredecessor seemed awfully quiet on the forum. I’m happier to have her between the rock and hard place.

Don’t let ’em give ya any guff, G.

Iason Evan.3806:

Totally disagree Jake. Evon Gnashblade is running the Pact now. Not only should conscripted Commanders of the Pact not get the items for free, they should pay for them with gems. After all, gems are a currency the Pact can’t pay you in and that makes it all the more sweet for Evon.

On the contrary. Every Evon dollar will be worth five Tyrian Gems. That is the exchange rate that the bank of Divinity’s Reach will implement after he kidnaps their queen.

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This weekend I found myself dealing with a rather nasty issue. Periodically while in combat, my attacks would plain stop initiating. No amount of key-tapping, key-pressing, or fist-banging would cause any of them to go off. This always happened while I was standing practically on top of the enemy, and would only fix itself if I took a few steps back.

It sounds like you are answering “No,” which means you should submit a ticket to support to get it checked out.

New rule: unwarranted anger masquerading as overwrought self-pity

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Dug into my data collection. As of 10/23, those pieces are still unavailable. But it now seems you knew that.

So they SENT YOU copies of the missing armor pieces? This is an odd turn of events!

ZudetGambeous.9573:

We all know that RNG has been broken since launch.

I mean whenever you loot a rare item, there is a 95% chance that the next rare item will be the same identical thing. Real “random”…

Haven’t seen that.

This explains how I am getting lucky by selling rare greatswords.

Wrong. You need either “Koss on Koss” or “There with Yakkington”. The other books unlock different skins which do not apply to this collection.

Probably a combination of the two, thanks to farming issues.

Whichever way it goes, we’ll likely be using a ‘weapon’ of Scarlet’s design from near the end of LS Part 1.

(edit: 5/26/16 I was referring to the poison developed at the Nightmare Tower and/or mechanical forces. Turns out that was seriously wrong.)

Was the display open when you reached 400. It doesn’t like to update while people are looking.

This is hitting everyone. So far, no explanation. No one seems to be claiming it’s a DDS attack.

Delusion is still in the game. It can no longer be bought because it now comes as Account Bound on Acquire. This is a side effect of a change to Magic Find gear that wasn’t applied evenly across the board.

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Funny you should say that. There was an instance of a single (bugged) player slowing down everyone in WvW not too long ago. Had something to do with his Guild settings and ANet had to make an adjustment.

Well, we’re close. The Falls is still a ways to the west, but I imagine we’ll get there.

I could get behind this. I have some fond memories of farming these things (was rarely successful, and never got one of the fans). With the small amount of in-game skins being added every episode, I think it would fit pretty well.

Husks, sylvari, Plant Wolves have never contributed to Plant Slayer, not even the ones that have been around for years. They are their own entity. Pretty much the only things that do count are Oakhearts and the like.

I know why it got censored (even pointed it out to the guy who originally typed it). I just thought it was funny

Aerdwen.3069:

Did anyone else notice that all the players in one scene of the new trailer have Gwynefyrdd following them?

Seems like a slap in the face to me.

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purecontact.1680:

Loot table are too wide and it makes them opaque.
I got the impression that every mob can loot over 1.000 items.

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Next person to whine about this is getting assigned some homework.

I agree with you though that the idea of a luck incrementer is a bad idea. The game engine is agnostic of what a player values a piece of gear. Most players would much prefer a Berserker’s exotic over a Magi’s, but the game engine doesn’t know this and treats them both as equals. Likewise, player value of different Runes and Sigils fluctuates over time, but the game engine cannot ascess [sp] this in the same terms. Even value itself has changed over time – 5 gold was a fortune at launch, and now it’s a pittance for many. And don’t get me started on the whining about ‘bad’ precursors; there’s a whole other thread for that already.

Any good solution must incorporate something that can be algorithmically defined, and defined in quantifiable terms. This isn’t just engineer-speak. You have to remember that the devs don’t have an army of interns always monitoring you and your personal opinions on various items in order to make a feedback system that will tick off what you thought was a worthwhile drop and what wasn’t. (Holy run-on sentence Batman).

Allisa: look for red posts in the other thread, because I’m pretty sure JS has already said he isn’t going to divulge details on the RNG system GW2 uses.

Mystic.5934:

The thing about random numbers is that you are guaranteed to eventually see ‘runs’. It happens. It’s the difference between ‘random’ and an even distribution.
The thing about humans is that they are designed to detect patterns.
So you will go months with getting random results with no discernible rhyme or reason, then one day you and your buddies all get aqua breathers, and boom, there’s a pattern and your brain raise all sorts of flags and alerts you to the weirdness that you should pay attention to.

In terms of how they decide the randomness, this is my guess:
each mob has a loot table of things it is able to drop, and each thing has a number range which decides how likely it is to drop
for example, let’s say cog is numbers 1-4, Bag of Experimental Materials is numbers 5-6, generic white item is numbers 7-8, generic blue item is numbers 9-10, generic green item is numbers 11-12, generic yellow item is number 13, generic orange item is number 14
then they use the generic random number generator function of whatever programming language they use to get a random number from 1 to 14. probably something like: $result = rand(1,14);
whatever number comes up is what item you receive.
obviously, the tables they are dealing with use much higher numbers. I would guess in the 9-digit range.

Your algorithm matches pretty well with my observations. I’d like to posit additionally that the items you get from a particular source are specific. We just had a massive amount of items come in via the farm in SW. I tried to post a random masterwork from my gains and saw the market was glutted for that particular weapon (some 800+ items at minimum value). Bonetti’s Rapier is rather famous for being farmable in SW too, enough to drive the price from 66G down to 6.6G

I’m not sure what you’re referring to as far as a 9 digit number, but there’s only about 38000 items listed in the API, and a good portion of those do not drop.

XD
I’m going to need to bookmark the page.

I don’t think ANet is using inhouse software for the forum, so they are at the mercy of whomever they bought it from.

Someone else’s example:
Uncensored: Things are a smidge chaotic.
Censored: Things are a kittenaotic.

If it makes you feel any better, I’m now experiencing this one in spades. Not only at the entrance, but to obtain one of the lost coins from part 3.

You may have better luck if, instead of going directly from the jump crystal to that stele, go back through the sandfall, past the merchant, around the chasm and attempt to make the jump from the opposite side.

Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!

joshc.3129:

So farmers should only be allowed to farm certain maps and not be allowed to farm other maps if players want to do the events?

“basically act like you are entitled to run the show on all maps, at all times, regardless of anything else.”

So players that do the events and not farm per say should be the ones that run the show because that’s what this thread is coming off as.

You are acting like players that farm are playing the game wrong and are just getting in the way of the way you want to play the game and how you think it should be played. If players want to stay in one area to farm let them, they are easy to ignore.

TL:DR All players are welcome to play the way they want to.

When farmers argue that players can go looking for another map, they engage the exact same behavior.

Pot call the kettle black much?

You – got your other meow-and-moan thread closed, let’s get this one shut too.

Nevets Crimsonwing.5271:

Sariel V.7024:

There is a gated section with holographic statues that no one has commented on yet. Probably because you can’t get in there to inspect what’s stored there.

If you read the sign above that gate it says “autopsy lab do not enter” lol.

Missed it Thanks.

Never

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There have been hidden achievements before, so it’s worth asking.

Allisa Wonderland.8192:

For example, 3 of 5 members pf a partty I was in for Tequatl recently got exactly the same aquabreather, and none of us had seen one in quite a while before that.

I got two Truths in two consecutive bags in EoTM, two weeks previous to that.

Neither of these are completely unexpected.

You seem to consider that you and only you, or your group and only your group, are the only ones accessing the RNG at any particular time. When you fought Tequatl, there were probably 50+ players in the area fighting him. Did you pool THEIR drops too? Did you check their drops in all past runs? And were all those aquabreathers the same weight? They do all have the same prefix and rune, but the different weight aquabreathers are fundamentally different items.

When a monster enters the map, the map tracks it in a list based upon its time of entry, and the same seems to hold true for players. What then makes sense is that treasure rolls are doled out in the same order of entry. For a massive event like Tequatl, these rolls may or may not be performed as a single batch. If not, then the rng function is being accessed by players/objects/events throughout the game. This really messes with your model.

As for the second instance, you are probably not the only person opening a bag at any particular time. Whatever the reason, you got lucky twice and got an exotic. Why the same exotic? That’s not random, is it?

Well, the loot table isn’t nearly as random as people like to think, particularly when it comes to bag contents, so getting doubles of a particular item isn’t really noteworthy. It happens with Masterwork Dire Krytan Spears of Ogre Slaying, but you don’t see anyone posting about getting two of those in their inventory, because who cares about salvage fodder?

It might also help to note that dropped Exotics are typically matched to a particular source of loot bag. One I like to mention is Lord Taeres Shadow, which you can get from champ spiders. The same is (probably) also true for any other class of loot.

At this stage, it feels obvious to me that the collections were just being shown off and weren’t intended to be in the game yet. Why, we may never know.

At any rate, the items for these collections are easily obtained. Consume what you have if you need the space and write it off as a bad experience. It’s time to move on.

Too much of a good thing

There is a gated section with holographic statues that no one has commented on yet. Probably because you can’t get in there to inspect what’s stored there.

Whoever decided to create an homage to Thief needs a raise.

Related issue:

Confirmed dead NPC returns to LA during Hallowe’en.

And stays after it is done.

Kysin.6349:

That MF boost affects bandit chests, but yeah… I hate when enemies don’t even give a chance at loot.

There’s plenty of enemies that drop loot.

Stop running past them.

yorick.1305:

The loot is now in Skritt hands.

Nothing good can come of this.