Congrats on the kill again. TTS is still battling bugs. At least we have a Dev that runs with us, so we don’t have to report anything.
Ohh. so you are blaming it on bugs now. LoL Deso has done it twice now without any blaming failures on bugs. I thought you guys were the ’elite" of all “hardcore” ’elite" players. No excuses then. LoL
We have a Dev that runs it with us nightly. Everything he sees, he reports to Crystal, thus the work on the bug fix behind the scenes. Mind you that the bugs don’t happen all the time. We joke with him that we’re Beta testing the Wurm.
I’m not sure you understand how the servers work. Each world server can only contain a finite amount of players (say 10,000). If the server is full or close to it, that means it has close to the maximum number of players allowed.
Going on, not all players on your specific server might want to do a particular event. So if there’s 10,000 people living on your server, and they all want to do Queensdale, or SPvP, or even WvW, then you have the following choices:
1) Transfer to another server that has similar interests as you
or
2) Convince people on your server to have similar interests as you
Youre missing the point. Theres no reason to separate players on to different servers in terms of PVE. Overflows are proof of that. Merge the normal channels as well, problem solved.
No. Each server has it’s own map. It makes no sense to have shared maps, because then it causes more problems when you have 100,000 people trying to get into the same map that only holds 150.
If one server decides to PvE less, then you have to make the decision to leave, or gather people to do PvE with you. That’s how you solve your problem.
Why is that a problem? Keep creating layers.
That’s what Overflows are for. I think you don’t realize that the basis of your whole idea is already implemented.
I think only master tools have that extra chance to get materials when mining (or if you are using the appropriate guild buff)
I believe all mining or harvesting has an inherent chance to get bonuses. But I digress. There are so many threads and comments popping up, and an Anet Mod or Dev will need to try and explain this mechanic either way.
If it’s an existing mechanic, let it be known. If it’s a bonus on top of a bonus, let it be known. At least then we can debate the item, rather than assume it’s one way or the other.
I’m not sure you understand how the servers work. Each world server can only contain a finite amount of players (say 10,000). If the server is full or close to it, that means it has close to the maximum number of players allowed.
Going on, not all players on your specific server might want to do a particular event. So if there’s 10,000 people living on your server, and they all want to do Queensdale, or SPvP, or even WvW, then you have the following choices:
1) Transfer to another server that has similar interests as you
or
2) Convince people on your server to have similar interests as you
Youre missing the point. Theres no reason to separate players on to different servers in terms of PVE. Overflows are proof of that. Merge the normal channels as well, problem solved.
No. Each server has it’s own map. It makes no sense to have shared maps, because then it causes more problems when you have 100,000 people trying to get into the same map that only holds 150.
If one server decides to PvE less, then you have to make the decision to leave, or gather people to do PvE with you. That’s how you solve your problem.
And why are you opening another topic here, if it has already been said somewhere else?
This is something that the community brought up many times in the past, and in my excitement, I wanted to be sure everyone heard the great news. Remember, not everyone knows where to go for information, esp. if it’s buried in the middle of a topic.
On that note, I sooo can’t wait until this update comes. I’m already investing in Superior Sigils before the prices skyrocket.
They spiked already when they discussed it during the twitch stream 2 weeks ago.
That was based on speculation. Now that it’s in writing, I expect more people to jump onto the Sigil bandwagon. Gotta grab them all while I can. Still, it’s an exciting time to be a 2-handed weapon user.
Since the previous massive thread on this topic was locked for being “inflammatory” in tone, let’s all make an effort to be non-inflammatory as we discuss this topic. To kick things off, I’ll reiterate the facts:
1) The watchwork mining pick is a best in slot item, as it produces more material when it mines than any other pick.
2) The watchwork mining pick is available only in the gem store.
Is this an appropriate addition to the gem store? My personal opinion is no; best in slot items do not belong in the gem store under any circumstances. As you reply, to add your opinions, please make an effort to keep the discussion calm and non-inflammatory.
Please note that we’re still waiting for confirmation on whether or not the new pick is, in fact, better than the previous. Because we don’t fully understand the mechanics of mining, be careful not to pass “assumptions” as “facts”.
And why are you opening another topic here, if it has already been said somewhere else?
This is something that the community brought up many times in the past, and in my excitement, I wanted to be sure everyone heard the great news. Remember, not everyone knows where to go for information, esp. if it’s buried in the middle of a topic.
On that note, I sooo can’t wait until this update comes. I’m already investing in Superior Sigils before the prices skyrocket.
Odd… I have never once felt forced to buy anything from the store. I do it because I want whatever item they have sold. If you feel forced, that is your issue.
If you dont purchase from the store, then you have no right to speak on this issue at all.
Then that means I have full rights to tell people that there’s no “forcing” in any aspect of the Gem Store.
Anet needs to be forthcoming with this, simply because there are a lot of upset players who might very well be upset over nothing. But I do realize that Devs generally don’t comment on game mechanics.
If the mechanics existed already, that’s fine. If the new pick gives a bonus on top of a bonus, then as Vol said, we’re very close to the P2W line (although I still wouldn’t call it that).
exactly! INFINITE; It was advertised as “this is the last pick you will ever need to buy.”
come to think of it, if the company promised me an infinite car that I would never have to repair or replace again, but then came out with a new infinite car that drove twice as fast, I would request an upgrade for the price difference. which is what I plan to do if they give me a refund. kinda illustrates why in-game and IRL aren’t usually comparable.
The Infinite Molten Pick still works. You don’t need to buy the new pick, you WANT to. Big difference.
Anet got the ‘massively’ part right atleast in MMORPG, since Deborah is the most common name in Kryta, and roughly 33% of all humans had their parents murdered by the White Mantle…. (/sarcasm)
White Mantle was 200 years ago. My parents were killed by Centaurs.
The White Mantle were 200 years ago, but they are also still right now, and are still very much around, but since Guild Wars 2 is not human focused, we may never actually see them outside the personal story.
I don’t think you understood the part where I said my parents were killed by Centaurs. If you meet me in TC, I’d be more than willing to tell you my RP story at the Dead End bar. My asuran wife could even introduce you to some of her friends back home in Rata Sum.
I’m actually rather curious as to how ,RP-wise, you managed to marry an Asura, being honest.
My character’s love is not based on size or race, but of what’s on the inside. The heart. Besides, we can’t decide if our comparability is because my human is just super smart, or her asura is just super dumb. Maybe my human likes being hit with snarky attitudes 24/7. We didn’t write that RP story yet. And on a side note, we’re leaving out any honeymoon elements, since each story we wrote so far is too hilarious to share.
So no report can be made. This is the equivalent of a person walking up to you and asking for enough money for a bus ticket, you saying no, and him walking away.
That in itself isn’t a scam. A scam would be “I promise you a 50% interest return if you invest 200 Gold with me.”
User Ken DeBoer brought up an interesting point in the other forums, and I wanted to see if we could get confirmation on something. My apologies if this was brought up in a different thread.
When you mine a node, you have a small percentage to get bonus ore. Example, mining an Orichalcum node typically gives you 3 ore, with an x% chance to get a bonus 1 to 3 additional ore. Does the new Watchwork Mining Pick completely replace that bonus ore chance with sprockets? If the later is true, that means the new pick is actually worse off when mining T6 nodes.
I think confirmation on this mechanic would help calm the current rage storm. I personally don’t like having a pick give additional bonus items with usage, but I’m completely fine if that mechanic already existed in game (and we were unaware of it).
I wanted to stop by and say thanks for the feedback. We do feel that the celestial stat set will be hit the hardest with the upcoming critical damage changes, so we are looking at possibly boosting the overall stats by a small amount.
Also the celestial stat set in PvP is using a much lower stat multipliers than the PvE versions so we will be looking at changing this as well. Nothing is set in stone, but I wanted to let guys know this is something we are discussing.
That’s good to hear, since crafting Celestials requires time gated mats. I feel that the Celestial stat set should be slightly higher overall regardless, since the requirements to get are a bit more difficult over other stat combos.
On a similar note, don’t forget to consider a revamp to the Divinity and Traveler Rune sets too.
Now that the pick has been out a little while more data is out on the mining pick. What the pick does is replace the extra ore you may have received from a swing with a sprocket.
So you may get:
-1x ore
-1x ore + 1x crafting material (gemstone)
-1x ore + 1x Sprocket
You can no longer get the 2x ore.
*mind you this is a small sample size
Good point. If that’s truly the case, then all the complainers will be embarrassed for the current rage.
I would prefer to get that extra Orichalcum ore than a sprocket, so I’ll be keeping my Molten Pick.
Anet got the ‘massively’ part right atleast in MMORPG, since Deborah is the most common name in Kryta, and roughly 33% of all humans had their parents murdered by the White Mantle…. (/sarcasm)
White Mantle was 200 years ago. My parents were killed by Centaurs.
The White Mantle were 200 years ago, but they are also still right now, and are still very much around, but since Guild Wars 2 is not human focused, we may never actually see them outside the personal story.
I don’t think you understood the part where I said my parents were killed by Centaurs. If you meet me in TC, I’d be more than willing to tell you my RP story at the Dead End bar. My asuran wife could even introduce you to some of her friends back home in Rata Sum.
As for the scaling bug Hammerguard mentioned, if that’s what happened in the case of Deso’s World First kill, I’ll feel a little cheated. I’m still happy that their group was able to defeat it. But the competitive side of me is upset that we’ve been trying so hard to get that last few percentage of HP down, only to miss it by a sliver.
Gold doesn’t just disappear. You were probably hacked. I suggest you consider not closing your account, and perhaps changing your e-mail/password. Personal security goes a long way.
Anet got the ‘massively’ part right atleast in MMORPG, since Deborah is the most common name in Kryta, and roughly 33% of all humans had their parents murdered by the White Mantle…. (/sarcasm)
White Mantle was 200 years ago. My parents were killed by Centaurs.
No, they aren’t functionally the same. They have different functions. One gathers ore with a chance at gemstones, the other gathers ore and a chance of gemstones or sprockets. Different functions.
Same function: Unlimited mining
Minor improvement: 20% chance at extra goodies
Again, I agree that the new pick is a bad idea. But you can’t get mad over a business offering a “new and improved” version of a product.
Crystal, please fix the 10 second Invulnerability bug today? Getting so close each time, only to be a few seconds away from victory makes me /cry. We need those 10 seconds if we can’t get lucky with a head getting stuck against a wall. *note – you can leave that buggy last part in.
While I agree that the new pick is walking a thin line, there’s no real disrespect in the Gem Store. All items are meant for conveniences, and require no real world money to purchase. Getting mad that a current item is better than your previously purchased one, is like getting mad at Toyota because their new 2014 Corolla is better than your 2010 one. It’s just silly.
Or because the 2014 Corolla made in January is better than the 2014 Corolla made in August.
Edit: Changed the month for accuracy
If you like the newer model over the older one, simply buy the new one. Both are functionally the same, only one has a minor improvement.
While I agree that the new pick is walking a thin line, there’s no real disrespect in the Gem Store. All items are meant for conveniences, and require no real world money to purchase. Getting mad that a current item is better than your previously purchased one, is like getting mad at Toyota because their new 2014 Corolla is better than your 2010 one. It’s just silly.
I’m not sure you understand how the servers work. Each world server can only contain a finite amount of players (say 10,000). If the server is full or close to it, that means it has close to the maximum number of players allowed.
Going on, not all players on your specific server might want to do a particular event. So if there’s 10,000 people living on your server, and they all want to do Queensdale, or SPvP, or even WvW, then you have the following choices:
1) Transfer to another server that has similar interests as you
or
2) Convince people on your server to have similar interests as you
The following I read concerns me. “The other is which world you’re associated with for the Season. This association was made the first time you entered the world during Season 1.”
As I mentioned, I returned full time to the game sometime in October. I can not remember the exact date. I was in an EU server but my friends there had all quit, leaving me playing on a server that was totally dead during my peak hours.
So I changed to Jade Quarry to join a friend’s guild. All of my time, my efforts and my points were achieved while under the Jade Quarry banner. I don’t remember the exact date when I transferred, but I spent pretty much the entire period on JQ and can’t have been more than a couple of days.
You transferred from EU to NA, so that’s where the major problem is. They have a potential fix for this, but you may not see it for a while. I would recommend waiting until they attempt to fix it, and then update your ticket if you don’t get your chest.
I like to role-play an evil Sylvari employed by Scarlet Briar. I often attempt to disrupt events such as Marionette and Tequatl. I never revive downed players but rather laugh at them and mock them. Sometimes, I even kite aoe mobs to downed players just to kill them. If anyone asks me about events or spawn timers, I often intentionally lead them astray by giving them misinformation. I’ve stolen countless Siege Golems and Repair Hammers on the Marionette event. Though I tend to warn the Marionette group well in advance of my intentions, they are rarely able to stop me. Another one of my favorite ways to spread misery is to intentionally start dynamic events which disrupt other events and player actions in the immediate area….such as starting the event at Mabon Market in Caledon Forest which renders the crafting tables completely useless.
And above all, in map chat, I am very vocal about my evil intentions. I am very keen to inform my enemies of their impending doom at mine own hands.
So, does anyone else role-play a bad guy? How do you do it?
“I am or-di-na-ry guy. Burning down the house!” – Talking Heads
This is called Griefing, and you can be suspended for this if people report you.
After failing the marionette living story event, there’s that laser that kills everyone. I was leveling in the zone far from the event and I got killed by that. I was a bit more than miffed. Please change it to only those participating in the event.
By dying, you were participating in the Living Story. If we were in real life, and a villain was aiming a super weapon at the city I was leveling in, I’m not going to stick around killing ten rats and hoping the army wins. I’d be on my way out until I knew it was safe.
Actually, I think it’s blocked mostly because there are Mesmer Phantasms that are named “Illusionary xxxx”. So having a name that’s similar to the Mesmer skills would be confusing, thus blocked.
seriosly i can’t even join them on my home server cuz of that stupid overflow sistem this is why this things of content shoud be instanced COME ON arena net
Overflows exist because each map can only hold a finite amount of players at once. If there’s a maximum of 100 players per map (just making up numbers), and there’s 300 people trying to get in, only the first 100 will make it to the main map. The other 200 will then be placed in an Overflow server, which mimics the main server exactly. All the events are the same there, so you should have no problem accessing the new Living Story content.
Tequatl is too easy, my server does him like 6 times on average per day, organized by pugs btw.
I read a lot of your posts, you seem to be very proud of yourself and your team. You seem to be able to do everything, and the whole game is just too easy for you. Amazing gamer you must be.
Please stop trolling my post. Tequatl is overpowered for its level. The whole area now is unplayable. Exploding fishheads you cant kill.
Why not throw some Toxic Alliance in low level Queensdale and Gendarran Fields where low level toons with no toxic removal skills. That was brilliant
The fact that the players on your server refuse to organize for a boss that requires a good deal of coordination, is proof it’s not Anet’s fault. If everyone just wants to stand around hoping to join a group, rather than forming one, then that’s where your main problem is.
By the way, you don’t kill the fishheads, you avoid them. The mechanics of the fishheads are the most simple of the whole event chain.
They added 2 hard bosses in over 1 year, the rest of the (for the most time) fortnightly patches were designed for casuals… So how exactly is ANeT ignoring 90% of their player base?
If you need me to tell you…
Please do tell! Not sure how releasing elite level content is ignoring 90% of their player base. It’s more like us 10% have been waiting for these updates for over year.
Yeah, I saw what was in Scarlet’s Lair when people posted it on the forums. It’s cool and interesting, but having seen it on the forums I now feel even less motivation to do the boss fights and get what I need to go to her Lair myself. I did not check out the LA instance yet, and I do plan to do that, but that’s story, not content. It’ll hold my attention for 5-10 minutes, right?
For example, while playing this weekend, what is there to do other than:
1) fight boss
2) wait 2 hours
3) fight boss again
1) WvW
2) SPvP
3) Trading Post PvP
4) World Map completion
5) Alt leveling
6) Jumping puzzles
7) Daily Achievements
8) Monthly Achievements
9) Easter egg hunting
10) Krytan language debunking
11) Profession build experimentation
12) Crafting
13) Champ trains
14) Slayer achievement completion
15) Keg Brawl
16) Sanctum Sprint
17) Karka Toss
18) Southsun Survival
19) Temple clearing
etc.
etc.
etc.
Low success event + no loot from mobs = Time/Gold sink ?
Having events that basically require the same people turning up to all servers & running them is in no way any form of “balance”. This game is further & further from the grasp of the common player. The toil of making ascendeds is bad enough, then we find out that there will be stat changes which will potentially make a particular set unviable for the toon you busted your butt to create.
Now we have an event with a high failure rate where there is a multitude of mobs but no loot. Since when did obtaining loot for efforts become a no no?
Farming mobs instead of trying to do an event is one thing, getting no loot from an event that is expected to fail is totally unfair.
Its a game , its meant to be fun, This is more like work than fun.
These events aren’t meant to be farmed for their mobs. The goal is to kill the main boss for the loot.
Working as intended.
I needed to quote myself, since the OP completely missed my post.
Basically, you have an end goal, which is to beat the boss. You have wave after wave of mobs. Even multiple Champ spawns. If the mobs all dropped loot, guess where all the Champ trains will move to? There would be no reason to beat the event, since the rewards for farming would exceed the end reward.
There will never be content like this were you get both mob loot, and end event loot. That would break the economy, and Anet knows this.
I see this comment a lot. And every time I do I want to see the person who made the comment do exactly that….just go out to Lion’s arch and organize a group of 150 players to do ANYTHING! (heck, I helped run a couple temple runs and it is like herding cats to get people to go to the same place in the same order…much less do an organized event like tequatl) HERDING CATS I TELL YOU!
I used to guest to TC to help lead Teq kills. This was before TTS was formed.
Why not take the initiative and gather people from your server to do the event? If you just want to show up to elite content, expecting to join an organized group, then you need to wait for that group to come.
If no one wants to lead or coordinate on your server, it’s not Anet’s fault, but the players themselves.
/kidding
