Your bleeds were overriding the bleeds of another player.
with 0 condition damage?
Even though the interface clearly said those 25 stacks belong to another player?
Even though it had 25 stacks and I was only seeing a bunch of bleeds (cant remember how many bleedings the 5th bow warrior skill puts).
I hardly think my poor 0 condition warrior will override probably 150 players where many of them might be built for condition damage constantly updating their stacks
0 is the additional damage conditions inflict, not the total.
Welp, seeing these has made me feel better. Now I know I won’t have to waste time grinding to gather/pay for matts to be able to craft ascended armour. Unless they change the way they look, I see no need to bother.
To put it in a nutshell: STOP kicking lower levels out of your groups, just because it will take 10 minutes longer…. Lets be a good community and be friendly to everyone!!
I’d say you should join a group of level thirtysomethings if you wanna do the dungeon. Otherwise, it’s not fair to expect people to carry you through the dungeon. You know that you will die and do little damage, so you are either clearly expecting the rest of the group to do things for you, or you don’t expect it to take just ‘10 minutes longer’
Can you find people lvl 80 who come along with you? of course you will, there’s always a kind spirit when you need it, but don’t expect everybody to be that kind spirit.
They ain’t carrying anybody, any more then THEY were carried when they were first doing the dungeon AT THE SPECIFIED APPROPRIATE LEVEL. News flash, snob, they get upleveled.
Yeah. I saw this coming like so many. Considering how long ahead you have to sit on your thumb if you want to organizes a Teq fight, or try to zone into the map in a high load server, (spent an hour trying to get into map with guildie last time I tried) for the laughably labeled reward?
The old Talking Celery Stalk said it best:
Moving on…
I actually like it. I think making the ectoplasm refinement time-gated and account bound was a good idea (spirit wood and Deldrimor are account bound, right? or did I make that up?). It seems designed to ease in the new tier and prevent pay-to-win gaming. True, dark matter completely destroys the latter aspect, but that has nothing to do with the time gate – rather, it’s the account bound part. I wouldn’t mind seeing the limit raised to perhaps two per day, especially if it got paired with either lower resource cost and/or bank limits raised to 500 per stack, but generally I think it’s working well.
They are not account bound. You can sell em on the TP. So there is no true time gating. If you have enough gold and time you can farm all the mats pretty easily and buy whatever else you need. Granted, the first few days the ingots and planks were VERY expensive, but now they are about the same cost as it would take to make one.
No true time gating? What crack are you smoking? There are 2 items you can only make one of per day for ascended. Kinda fits the time gating deff, and the true kind too.
Never mind the piles of matts all this takes. From the devs who had the gall to tell us they weren’t in the bizz of making a grindy game. This game has become nothing but grind with the updates this summer. I know it’s driving me away. I barely stay on long enough to cover dailies anymore. Am playing other stuff that is actually fun, kinda what games are supposed to be.
Not a second job.
Welcome to being screwed. All the resources, and most importantly, ectos you put into discovery. May as well have tossed em in the garbage for all the use they were
From what I understand, you can hit 425 really easily and 450 without too much effort/gold. But the 450-500 is either expensive (~100g) or time gated. My thoughts are most people will opt for the slower method, rather than burning through all their gold and mats on day 2 of the patch.
It’s not hitting the kitten number that;‘s the problem. It’s that the kittens wiped out ALL exotic recipes we discovered. LOADS of ectos kitten ed down the drain for us. I had almost all the kitten recipes. Now they are gone. And I sure aint getting them back with the 27 god kitten ectos I have left now. And yo sure know the aholes aren’t going to refund us the cost of all those discoveries they wiped out.
And ectos have doubled in price since they did this.
Forced grind >3<
kitten ed right. Since they are wiping out ALL the exotic recipes we discovered, so we can “earn that sweet xp” all over again. While you can be kitten sure they aren’t going to refund the ori and ectos that went into discovering them. And considering how many recipes there are, that’s hundreds or ori and ectos kitten ed into the wind. Now we have to grind to recover the matts to rediscover what we already discovered. “For sweet xp” which is so kittening useful at 80.
I would love Hylek or Skritt, but I’ve been told that according to GW lore, Skritt and Hylek are too ‘primitive’ and are ‘lesser races’ not capable of higher cognitive thought, and thus not candidates for player characters.
Kodan, on the other hand, would make sense and are also armored bears which makes them automatically 100% kitten.
Yeah. I hear that too. I want to roll a skritt guard. But I’d go for a largos. Personally, can’t stand the kodan, and only help them cause the hearts make me. I feel about them like some norn says in snowden. Basically a convo tween a couple. One saying she thinks Bear put them in that form to teach them humility. The other saying he doesn’t think they’ve leaned anything at all. They could teach the asura lessons in self important arrogance.
Turn off those nameplates folks!
They are turned off. Past a certain distance, they ALL show up. Player and NPC. Nice fail there. Nameplates everywhere, regardless of the setting. I’ve never turned mine on cause I don’t care bout ppls names or titles. If I want to know, I look at them. Now, name clutter every kitten where.
Do you have any idea how many people that want duels will get on here and complain about how dynamic events disturb your precious duels? Go to WvW and duel on the bl behind the wind mill like everyone else.
I dont think anyone would post something like that. Be realistic. If anything, they will move their duel to somewhere else.
WvW duels happen, they are fun, but we cant duel people in our own server. Spvp is out of the question, the thing that spawns when I join Mysts is NOT the character I grew up with.
Do you read the forums? The stupid complaints/suggestions take up at minimum 33% of the space.
I agree that there needs to be somewhere for players to be able to duel their friends [guild halls?] but not in the open world. I would love to test new builds against my friends in a nice quiet corner or battle randoms in front of an audience but like i said not in PvE.
There is. It’s called the Mists. Guildie drags me there to test builds on her toons. Find an empty arena. Duel away. There is never a shortage of empty arenas.
I personally just run around and solo/duo portals, but there’s nothing wrong with them going super zerg as long as they’re running around and hitting portals, as others have said the champions take out a much larger chunk of the invasion bar which actually makes it EASIER to close portals once you hit the critical mass of zerglings.
Not to mention i’ve never seen people purposely fail the event so they could farm champions, everytime there’s a champ farming zerg we always clear it with ~3min or so to spare, it’s normally when we have every idiot and their grandma trying to solo the aetherblades/ Molten Alliance instead of listening to the plan that we fail… (Zerging them is fine, but you can’t take those out easily with a small team)
As long as they’re running portals….. that’s the point. They aren’t. They are zerg farming Aethers, regardless of if they are the targets. Once they spawn, they stay on their zones even once that phase has passed. So no. killing their champs doesn’t help kitten, and diverts effort from the actual events that progress the meta. And the farm commanders pull ppl with their doritos from progress events. And yes, they keep saying to hit Aethers even tho they are no longer the targets.
I don’t remember that Logan part. All I remember is Braham and Rox following me around.
Me either. I mostly recall Faren falling and going: YESSSSSSSSSSS! DIEEEEEEE!
I came to hate him when I took the noble human path with the first mez I rolled. Poisoned it so much I ended up deleting that toon and making a necro instead. Made every other profession before finally rolling a norn mez. Turns out most of my not liking the mez toon was Faren.
I was mui disapointe that I had to save him. I wish they gave us a “Let Him Simmer” achievement option instead.
Amen. Hell, it can be a chore remembering which you did from day to day so you don’t end up with a single friggin shoulder scrap. Did I do that map before reset, or after?
Just saying. Can’t stand watching my norns dance with this problem. Sure. It aint a game breaker. But it wasn’t like this before. What ya do to break it then? Are you gonna fix it some decade?
All the dimishing returns implemented on this game and the dungeon reward system was to balance the gold-making between classes.
It wall all good until BAM Queens gauntlet being farmed by a couple classes which allows them do make 100-200g a day!!!! thays a legendary in a week guys!!!
A few people are getting super rich, while other dont even have the chance to make decent gold because of the DR and Dungeon reward system. Or because their classes just suck for the gauntlet fights with 4-5 gambits.
To make it more evident, when COF farming was on, 100gems were worth around 3gold… now 100 gems are 4gold!!
The game’s Gold-sink is going down the drain.
Gems are up cause ppl are buying them for gemstore crap. Other ppl making money isn’t your problem. You not making it is your’s. Do something about it. Play and earn, stop pretending your qqing is concern about the economy.
I had a guy actually say to me yesterday that the arena he was at was full and for me to go away. I made sure to stay around, get into a match, and fight for as long as possible. He left not too long after that.
Well, I for one find it somewhat rude to hijack someone else’s farming arena. Polite people find their own arenas where they don’t disturb anyone.
Except none of the arenas belong to anyone, much less a farmer thinking he has the right to tell anyone where to play.
Oh, I buy gem stuff. I don’t kitten my money away on buying lottery tickets. In a game or rl.
Anet if you’re reading this can we get sexy male robots too? And some chesty armour for my sexy thief instead of trenchcoats? It isn’t fair that light-armoured ladies get all the skin, why can’t guys get some too :C
Wouldn’t mind not having trenchcoats all the time. Lotta nice gear with cool leggings that are pointless cause they then hide them with trenchcoats. May as well have been basic jeans.
I love how people say that they’re “made to appeal to male fantasies” or something.
Yes, because a giant metal clockwork machine made out of pixels is totally a male fantasy.
Grow up. There are enough real problems facing women without you quasi-crusaders freaking out every time you see something that looks like a breast made out of pixels.
I know right. Makes me want to head right out into the garage in search of my oil can….
Tott, there’s plenty of evidence to the contrary. You ignore it and brush it under the patriarchy. Your feeling of offense is not because there’s some master plot to sexualize women and promote them only through the male gaze.
In fact, where you see gross, unrealistic shapes that could forever ruin femininity, others see beauty and power in SPITE of form. The Watchknights are powerful regardless of how they look. However, all you see is how they look (women) and suppose that it MUST be sexualization, abuse of women, making women weak, etc.
It’s perspective, and your perspective is colored by sex-negative radical critical feminism.
They’re naked women fighting in dominatrix-style stiletto heels. I’m as conservative as southern girls come and I see the sexualization of these statues, too. I don’t understand how you and others can’t.
Nudity =/= Sexualization
The human body isn’t scary and offensive to look at, it’s a natural form that can be appreciated without being sexualized.
The Watchknights have a nice style to them, the female form to them is more artistic and beautiful than sexy.I’m not too much of a fan of heels but I don’t care that they’re there too, just saying that to say that.
I dunno. I find the naked male disturbing. To me it is the strongest argument that “god”, the universe, what have you does have a sense of humour.
And it’s warped.
…Really?
Have you ever been to Rata Sum?Yes and I have complained about the Sci-Fi Asura as well as the Steampunk Charr/Dredge.
This isn’t the Guild Wars that I knew and loved. ArenaNet may as well remove all melee weapons and replace them with blaster rifles. Mesmers could use holography rather than magic. It’s so sad.
And those dragons, as it turns out, are mechanical and filled with Asura. They would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids and their crazy dog.
And, lo and behold, over two hundred years later, we are no longer using horse drawn carriages, using muzzle loading muskets and sailing on galleons. Hell, we even managed to go to the moon and send probes out that are on the cusp of leaving the solar system.
Seems you are just sad there wasn’t stagnation.
But, if that were the direction, why did they not commit? I believe I would have had a better experience had Guild Wars 2 went full on 21st Century rather than a bizarre magic, sci-fi, cryptozoology, paranormal, J.R.R. Tolkien, 18th Century, 2nd Century, Jurassic, Medieval, 37th Century, 1950s era M.A.S.H.-up. If they wanted to explore the idea of Elder Dragons, it seems they should have kept firmly rooted in Medieval fantasy.
And yet, even today, we have people living stone age lifestyles in jungles and the kitten end of nowhere all over the world….
Cultures and nations do not progress in lockstep. Or stagnate together either.
Ok. But ascribing one of the seven deadly sins to someone is not generally a good way to have a conversation.
For illustrative purposes only here is the counter example, “Why shouldn’t I get two rewards for two characters. You could get two rewards also if you weren’t too lazy to level up an alt.”
Amen. Lazy is saying no one should have more then you cause you don’t want to do what they did to get it. Isn’t easy gearing up alts, or cheap. Much less making it so that it takes a solid month to make enough fused crystals for one set of armour, for eg, 2 if you want jewelry too, 3 or 4 if you want multiple weapon sets so you don’t get bored with using just one swap set. PER TOON.
If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?
Yeah, cause not being glass and going down all the time is so not helping anything. Pretty tired of picking up zerkers off the ground all the time cause they can’t deal with a fart wafting in their direction.
Wouldn’t be as bad if they could time their dodges well enough. Of course, in open PvE a lot of people don’t bother to pack extra evasion skills, and just autoattack and stop paying attention. (I love using those people for Daily Reviver on the Queensdale troll.)
Yeah. I watch for those players. Easy to spot. I don’t rez them. Even when the fight is over.
I am sure all of these players must cry themselves to sleep because you didn’t revive them.
Considering the QQing you hear from them in chat when no one rezes them before the chest disappears…. yup
If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?
Yeah, cause not being glass and going down all the time is so not helping anything. Pretty tired of picking up zerkers off the ground all the time cause they can’t deal with a fart wafting in their direction.
Two things to point out :
1. It’s actually quite easy to survive full glass, you’re overestimating how much an effect no toughness/vit has.
2. Zerkers will normally drop when they go in to unoptimised groups. It’s what happens when I try to melee a boss in a pug and everyone’s decided to camp at range.
It’sactually quite funny how often I’ve been the last one alive in a group even when they’re running “tank” gear, and simply by dodging I was able to sit there with a full health bar the whole time doing just fine.
Not by how often I pick their dead kitten up of the ground, I’m not overestimating anything.
If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?
Yeah, cause not being glass and going down all the time is so not helping anything. Pretty tired of picking up zerkers off the ground all the time cause they can’t deal with a fart wafting in their direction.
Wouldn’t be as bad if they could time their dodges well enough. Of course, in open PvE a lot of people don’t bother to pack extra evasion skills, and just autoattack and stop paying attention. (I love using those people for Daily Reviver on the Queensdale troll.)
Yeah. I watch for those players. Easy to spot. I don’t rez them. Even when the fight is over.
Yeah. I’d like to be able to sell the support badges. Still holding them in the hopes….
Oh, don’t worry. I can’t beat them with an Elementalist either. I’ve died I don’t know how many times, only killing one, perhaps two of the pirates before dying. The frustration of being a squishy class that’s forced to fight 4 mobs at the same time in a confined area is enough to make stop attempting the gauntlet altogether.
That, coupled with the fact that there are no freakin’ waypoints/respawn areas on the top ring, making you walk all the way back, and I just said screw it and quit.
Use an arena with people spectating. We do rez you. Or keep using empty ones so you don’t have to wait a whole 2 minutes like in other threads ppl are qq about and run back. Not saying you’re one of them, just saying. Follow the balloon. Well, if you’re on GoM anyway.
…Really?
Have you ever been to Rata Sum?Yes and I have complained about the Sci-Fi Asura as well as the Steampunk Charr/Dredge.
This isn’t the Guild Wars that I knew and loved. ArenaNet may as well remove all melee weapons and replace them with blaster rifles. Mesmers could use holography rather than magic. It’s so sad.
And those dragons, as it turns out, are mechanical and filled with Asura. They would have gotten away with it too if it weren’t for those meddling kids and their crazy dog.
And, lo and behold, over two hundred years later, we are no longer using horse drawn carriages, using muzzle loading muskets and sailing on galleons. Hell, we even managed to go to the moon and send probes out that are on the cusp of leaving the solar system.
Seems you are just sad there wasn’t stagnation.
I’ll agree, it’s better than pinatas or sonic devices. But it’s still hide-n-seek. The only reason I’m doing it is because there’s a chest at each one, a balloon prize, and a few champions to kill on the way. I figure do 2-5 per day I play and I’ll have the achievement before time’s up.
Hide and seek? They’re marked on the map, and if the gates are closed the pilot gives you a quest marker of where to go to clear it. Did it with a guildie in a couple hours. What do you want, GPS and a field guide too?
Told you guys the savings is miniscule.
While cheaper BL keys save you several gold.
Only if you’re stupid enough to buy em
And why is there waiting: so people can watch other fights. Does anyone care? No, because they are busy with their boss. Nobody cares about the other fighting basically. No one cares for this gimmick.
It would work, if it would be like PvP spectating where you can actually see what someone is doing and see their build! That would be fun to see how others are doing it and learning something. But watching through the dome is just stupid, you don’t really see anything of interest.
You don’t speak for the entire player base. And in general you shouldn’t make such sweeping generalizations.
In my experience, in one day of the event, people were getting into spectating. Players were cheering each other on in /s and doing emotes. If someone was having trouble with a boss, the people that were watching what they were doing and how they died would give advice or suggestions. In an overflow, I and a few others spent easily over an hour at a single dome, having a blast. Someone got Liandri and we had a little dance party.Those people added me to their friends lists.
To summarize, its working as intended. And my single experience, invalidates your entire generalization.
In fact, we learned something valuable recently that you should keep in mind…
during the election, the forums heavily favored Evon and the Abaddon Fractal. Yes, there were Kiel supporters also, but the Evon support was overwhelming. There were even threads based on how there would be no way Evon could lose because all of the events and rewards were skewed his way. There were screen shots of forum goers with stacks of Evon buttons that had used boosters. Despite all of that, Evon lost. The lesson there is that not only is the forum community smaller than it thinks it is, but it is also totally out of touch with what the majority of the player base thinks, wants and enjoys.Just because you don’t like it, it doesn’t mean no one does. Just because forum monsters are mad they cant rush through the gauntlet without interacting with anyone, doesn’t mean a large amount of users aren’t having fun with the spectation and social aspect of it.
Pretty much. Spend more time watching with my guidie, balloons out, and rezing ppl then doing the fights. And watching the mechanics means I ain’t in one of the QQ threads kitten ing and moaning about ticket drop rates or having to spend so much gold buying them. And I’m one of the players that prefers soloing. Can always solo a dungeon if he wants an instanced “challenge”.
Maybe ppl weren’t rezzing him cause they didn’t feel like rezzing someone kittening about the update.
With my Ranger. First try. SB and snow leopard.
If they do the solitary, REMOVE THE kitten TIME LIMIT! Seriously, the time limit only serves to force people to basically go glass cannon just to beat the bosses in time to succeed in this gauntlet.
Bull. I don’t build my toons to be glass cannons. And I can do it. Learn the fights.
I wonder how I’m supposed to get the ooze achievement with my ele. If anyone has a pure single target ele build that does that much damage, then please go ahead and link it.
Offhand, I’d think earth tune with the scepter. Or DD. That spike only hits one target, and the stone stream is pretty tight. Just don’t walk you LOF over the adds. Same prob you’d have with a ranger and I did it with my ranger. Haven’t tried on my ele yet. I switched from her after getting tired of bouncing round with wind girl. That and my ele is the glassiest of my toons. Gotta remedy that. Don’t know how I did that, didn’t mean to.
That last Gauntlet fight is just silly, I pop in my pet is dead 3 seconds in..
Why have a Ranger pet at all
Mine came in handy for the pet heals. Poor boss whaling on me and I’m back on my feet to stomp him/her/it anyway.
Anet doesn’t care about Ranger people
Yeah. I am so UNEXCITED about my GS 2 skill getting turned into a crappy 3 stack vulnerability rather then bleed. Oh joy. 2 seconds of +%3 damage. so I can hit it two or three times for an extra smidgen of damage. Useful exchange that. :s
I get a laf out of the oozes that spawn on the spec ring. He hops up and down like he’s happy to have escaped the kill zone and gets to just watch now.
Annoying that we have that glitchy/crappy pickup animation that as often as not wont activate while in combat. Combined with the dog having no pickup animation to cycle and it is pita. I’m also kitten ed that after beating them they are putting me in a match against them again anyway. I didn’t sign up for a repeat with gambits, yet repeat I gets.
I just looked at the gaps between the butt and legs starting, and in the arms and thought, “weak spots, would be easy to take out those flimsy looking rods”.
Or… you could buy your arena tickets, make one in the mists and have your little duel. PvP is in the Mists, either tournament or WvW
It’d also be nice if they dealt with the crap where hitting F to pick stuff up in combat doesn’t work worth crap. STILL. Or give the kitten dog a pickup animation to have to activate like we do too.
Does your 3 tilt too? Mine does, and it mashes with the click and doesn’t work most of the time when I just want to click. To the point where I don’t bother to bind to the push button option for anything anymore.
Well, I considered suggesting that you not use kits if appearance was that much more important to you over functionality, but I figured that wouldn’t go over well.
Indeed. I don’t like thinking the choices are “don’t use a back piece” or “don’t use the only skills that make the engineer a viable profession.” What kind of choice is that? Honestly? It would be like telling a warrior that he will always appear naked unless he agrees to never use a banner skill.
I could live with that rule. I hate picking up their stupid banners when I’m trying to loot drops. Get a real skill!
Yes, I do run a warr. I run all profs.
Or you could, I don’t know, hit the mobs in the rest of the arena. They drop tickets, for free ~le gasp~
If you are using gear that buffs your own stats without helping the team (toughness and vitality as examples) then you are being selfish. How hard is that to understand?
Yeah, cause not being glass and going down all the time is so not helping anything. Pretty tired of picking up zerkers off the ground all the time cause they can’t deal with a fart wafting in their direction.
What is it? What does it do? What does it look like? I thought it was a skin, but I can’t preview it. Just says consumable/account bound. If it is a torch, I sure don’t want to give it to my Warr, who got it. So what is it?
Sales of Gw2 have reached well over 2million at preorder. 1 million units have been sold in over 6months after that. As a game ages, so does the rate at which copies will sell. Do you guys think there’s still a lot of juice left in direct sales?
Even if it can sell 1million units in 6months(which i highly doubt at this point in time).
thats only $50million in revenue(tops and not taking retailers into account/other expenses), do you guys honestly think the gem store can’t pull more than that from the playerbase increase of F2P in the same timeframe?
Yeah, cause they are only gonna sell a million in when they release it in one of the largest markets in the world. And monkeys fly out of my butt on a daily basis.
The biggest problems with alts right now is WvW ranks and Fractals levels. These should both be account bound. Having them be character bound forces me to play certain characters for different aspects of the game.
With Fractals I am indeed playing that same character even though I would love to be able to switch around and have some variety. With WvW on the other hand I play whichever character I want and this has essentially made WvW ranks meaningless to me.
So much this. I have a toon of every profession. I’ve killed buckets in WvW, and since I use multiple toons, none is over rank 5. And my best ranked frac is 5 too. Tho that I’m kitten thered by since not into fracs, but it’d be nice to know what each toon’s rank is without having to log them and go to the gate and seeing what the max it will allow me is. Still. Much rather the WvW ranks be account rather then char.