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Was culling reintroduced?

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Not sure, but something is different in the last days, maybe the distance you can see players or something. But not a problem.

Yes, I agree. It may not be ‘culling’ but there is certainly a problem with people getting in stealth, comming out of stealth and getting back in stealth immediatly.

But let’s face it, stealth has always been OP and Anet has never done anything serious about it, so I do not expect them to do anything now.

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4/5 TC/Kain/FA Week 5

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Really nice FA, camping the entrance of the Jumping Puzzle in EB and keep ranging the platform so we stay in combat and can’t get out.

Really, really nice.

/e claps slowly.

You must be sooooo proud of yourselves!

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Clarification needed please (Dolyak points)

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Anet has went the opposite direction it seems, Rewarding just a blob of people zerging everything

Yes, I agree, they didn’t think the WXP through.

- build siege : 0 WXP
- buy upgrades : 0 WXP
- guide yaks : 0 WXP
- repair stuff after the attackers left : 0 WXP
- buff so people kill faster : 0 WXP
- heal so people don’t die : 0 WXP
- claim stuff and add guild buffs : 0 WXP
- stun enemies : 0 WXP
- place banners : 0 WXP
- revive the Keep Lord : 0 WXP

It’s really disheartening that all ANet promotes in WWW is DPS, DPS, DPS.

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3/29 Kain-TC-FA Week 4

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Kaineg : 150,845 +280
TC : 139,985 +290
FA : 129,430 +125

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Remove the AOE limit.

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So you want to make it so Staff Elementalists (and other AoE abusing builds) can take down entire zergs by themselves and become massively overpowered? Because that’s probably what would happen, causing ANet to pull a massive AoE nerf across the board that would effect PvE as well and make AoE useless. I SAY NAY!

You make a classic mistake. you assume that when some mechanism changes, people will not react to it.

If ANet makes AOE useful against zergs, people will zerg less. Plain and simple.

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why bother with upgrades?

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This is soooooooo true.

For months I ran a support warrior. Now, I stopped. Why?

Cause I can give people fury & might all I want, I can heal them, I can make them dodge more and clear their conditions but I do not get one single WXP from any of that. None. Nothing. Zero. Nada.

The WXP system is blatantly unfair.

And, indeed, in the mean time they brag about their rank.

So, yeah, I’m DPSing too now.

Sentrying?
Upgrading?
Walking Yaks?
Healing?
Buffing?
Cleansing?

ANet considers none of these things worthy WWW activities, so why should I?

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3/29 Kain-TC-FA Week 4

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After an good night’s work, the score is…

Kaineg : 134,463 +345
TC : 127,504 +265
FA : 118,764 +100

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3/29 Kain-TC-FA Week 4

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Score Update! Keep pushing TC!

We are, we are! Trying to get FA’s last keep, the one in EB, but it’s a hard one to take versus a zerg, so it will take some time.

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WvW queue priority.

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For me FIFO is also best.

The only exception I could defend is that people that got disconnected get back in faster.

And yes,… fixing the queues is a top priority for me too. I got the feeling that when you WP while queued or you go through a portal or so, you get thrown to the back of the line. That’s not fun!

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WvW Ranks. Input wanted :)

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That type of progression is against GW2 initial rules, the grind here should be optional (skins, etc) and not required to compete at the top level.

That was apperently just a cheap marketing trick to get us into the game: they added ascended gear and this game is just as grindy as every other game out there.

More to the point…

This rank system favors DPs so much, it’s not even funny anymore. I can give 4 people fury and stack them with a bunch of might, I can heal them in the battle, I can make them dodge more often, I can start fire fields and NONE of this will get me any WXP.

And then these people brag about their WXP rank…

That is for me the biggest issue that needs to be adressed first: if I make a bunch of people DPS more and keep them alive, I should get part of the WXP too.

And second… like most people agree on: make it account bound, obviously.

Third… Arrow Carts mastery! 25% extra damage, bigger range, bigger AOE field, everyone stuns instead of just warriors would be 4 obvious choices.

Aside from that: make the point refundable. At least when new skills come out!

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3/29 Kain-TC-FA Week 4

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Score update!

Kaineg : 117,874 +205
TC : 108,326 +275
FA : 104,867 +215

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Could they have picked worse skins for WvW?

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It’s very disappointing. Like you said, the available skins are the low-level, generic item skins that we could have gotten already by spending a negligible amount of money. On top of that, it seems like we don’t even get access to all of the generic skins. I’m unable to get back into WvW at the moment, but while browsing for medium armor I remember seeing the Warden set, the Duelist set, and one other. I wasn’t expecting cultural armor, nor was I expecting for them to create a bunch of new skins just for us WvW players, but I was definitely hoping that we’d be given more than this. Right now, I’m just guessing that we unlock more skins as we rank up.

WvW players out number all other aspects of this game. Only PvE has a chance to beat out WvW players. Remember tho most PvE’ers WvW, but there are tons of WvWers who don’t PvE.

o_O Of all the people in my guild (which advertises as a WvW guild), there is literally no one that only does WvW. Not. One. Person.

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Only +5 supplies for... 520 WXP levels?

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5 supplies more is 50% more, it’s a very strong ability

It takes you less than 10g to make 3 guilds and have the +5 supply constantly runnin in a camp (or in a keep that gets alot of yaks in).

Plus, if you are in a 30-man zerg (which is relatively small), it doesn’t often matter if you got 300 or 450 or 600 supply with you.

Not to mention that it takes time to get supply: instead of raiding 3 camps that have 100 supply, you will have to raid 6 (if you find that many on the map).

Also… you do not ‘gain supply’. The supply has to exist on the map before you can take it. The only way to actually create supply is to upgrade a camp and get a yak to the tower/keep.

I think this is only good for people that like to ninja towers with exactly 3 people: they can now put up a superior ram instead of a regular one. Other than that, the use is pretty meh.

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Black Lion Chest Discussion

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Well, first of all to the OP: thank you! People like you keep this game running. Sure, you have been lied to. Sure, you lost alot of money. But, it’s for the rgeater good!

Second… this is what gambling companies do: they don’t tell you the price, they just take as much money from you as possible. Making you think ‘hey, the NEXT time can be the good one’ is a know marketing trick.

Third: if you don’t know by now that the BL chests are basically a tax for dumb people, you will never get it.

Forth… posts likes yours are probably printed out by the marketing person at Anet and then shown to their boss, saying : ‘look at this, boss, I made this dude buy 100 chests, give me a raise, I’m the best in taking people’s money!’.

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The Great WvW Update?

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You make a profit in WvW because you don’t buy upgrades or siege equipement. You can not make a profit if you do, and even if you don’t, the level 20 blues you loot from underleveled enemies, and the level 80 grey items, really don’t do much more than cover your repair bill.

You can use badges of honor to buy rams, treb, catas etcetc … and for the repair cost: try to die less…

The fact that you think that WWW only costs money for repairs & siege make me believe that you rarely pay for upgrades…

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Dawn price back ad 690 g agen

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Let’s calm down a bit, this isn’t getting us far. Instead let me ask this.
Here are the assumptions that I’m operating under for this question:
1. You feel that PvE and TP have difference levels of gold earning
2. You feel that PvE and TP should have the same level of gold earning

What would be your plan for implementing a reward system that would achieve what you desire, given the constraint that you may not get rid of the trading post?

Well, the easiest to implement would be to cap the number of items you can have for sale or bid on.

Another way would be to make all items that you buy from the TP account bound. Perhaps with a 12hour buy-back-guarantee option, altough that would be harder to implement.

But Anet will never allow this. Anet makes money from the extreem high prices on the TP, by selling gold to rich people through gems. It is not in the interest of Anet to limit high prices made by these TP abusers, at the contrary.

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Gear Level vs Character Level (pre-80)

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Well…

As a level 48 mesmer leveled down to level 5, I have…
- 43 power naked, giving Attack 434.
- 44 power when wearing +14 level 14 boots, giving Attack 448.
- 44 power when wearing +15 level 20 boots, giving Attack 449.
- 45 power when wearing +17 level 44 boots, giving Attack 451.

As a level 48 mesmer leveled down to level 24, I have…
- 168 power naked, giving Attack 434.
- 173 power when wearing +14 level 14 boots, giving Attack 448.
- 173 power when wearing +15 level 20 boots, giving Attack 449.
- 174 power when wearing +17 level 44 boots, giving Attack 451.

As a level 48 mesmer leveled up to level 80 in WWW, I have…
- 984 power naked, giving Attack 434.
- 1016 power when wearing +14 level 14 boots, giving Attack 448.
- 1018 power when wearing +15 level 20 boots, giving Attack 449.
- 1023 power when wearing +17 level 44 boots, giving Attack 451.

All this is unarmed, so it is pure basic weapon-less ratio power-to-attack.

So, basically, the power on the gear doesn’t get leveled: +10 power on an armor gives +10 power and +10 attack, regardlessly of how high level you are leveled too or how high level your gear is.

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3/15 Kain - FA - TC

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This only directed at Tallis as I respect rest of TC but how’s your bl doing we own everything but a tower

Well, luckily for me, that was the tower where I kept our magic cookiesh, the ones that gave us the energy to take more than half our BL back in 30 minutes!

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3/15 Kain - FA - TC

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This is getting a bit too much we have green attking us from behind and red from the front i get we are in 2ed but we are not 2ed by much. One world cant take 2 on at once and that is what effect is going on this week and last week. This is getting silly at this point.

Oh, please, not FA’s two-versus-one crying again!

- TC currently holds their 3rd og Kaineg, hardly something allies would do.
- Kaineg has a keep in TC’s EB third and nothing in FA, hardly something allies would do.
- Kineg is attacking our EB keep as we speak, hardly something allies would do.

But, sure, sure, keep complaining about 2vrs1. Gee.

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Sigil of Smolthering and Sigil of Force

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Then they stack afaik.

Just like 2 Minor and 2 Major Runes stack (like for fury duration).

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Something else to do?

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Well, you got Jumping Puzzles, lots and lots of them.

But the best non-repeating content is ofcourse WvWvW where you fight for the honor of your server!

Well, that and for the bonusses wvWvW gives to your server, ofcourse.

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World Completion Problem

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If you open your map and hover your mouse over the area’s name, you will see how many POIs you did and how many you are missing.

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Which Infusion slot should I get?

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Well, you probbly want to have +5 agony. you can put that on any type of slot, defensive, offenseive or utility.

Aside from that… if you are a Orr grinder, getting Magic Find on an amulet (that has already MF, ofcourse) will certainly be useful.

Finally, an option would be to have a Karma boost on an amulet. This will be very useful when you do the Orr boxes. Together with the Karma Guild Boost, the Karma Guilf banner, the Karma food and the Karma Booster, this will get your Karma bonus all the way up to +95% !

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Can players appeal decisions of...

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Can players appeal against decisions of Anet concerning other players?

More specifically, can I appeal Anet decision’s to not ban someone that helps thieves, like Anet did in this thread https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/account/Complaints-from-Gold-Buyer/first#post1657368 ?

These gold buyers & gold sellers are criminals. Plain and simple. Gold buyers need to be banned.

They ruin my game by inflating prices, they ruin my game by stealing accounts, they ruin my game by taking up time from Anet and they ruin my game by not buying gold through gems to support the game.

And Anet doesn’t even ban them when they get caught! All they do is say ‘oh, well, you got caught buying gold from thieves, thieves that stole the gold from other players, tssssk’ and let them just go on.

That is an unfair decision.

So, is there a way I can appeal to this decision not to ban these players that bought gold stolen from other players?

Another question…

The person that bought gold that was stolen from other players, bought gems before (he claims). Is there a different type of justice system for these players?

In other words: when you buy gems from Anet, are you then considered a ‘better customer’ and won’t be banned when you are caught buying gold stolen from other players?

Or is it general policy not to punish this kind of thieves?

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Leg Specialist + Arrow Cart = Enemy lockdown

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It is not ‘over and over again’. The AC #2 has a CD of 9 seconds, so it’s not like you’re constantly stunned.

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Amusing anecdotes

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People in golems are often fun, hehe. When it’s their first time in WvWvW, they see it standing there, the USE comes up and off they go!

Usually they start using all th skills too, so the golem is whirwinding a poor rabbit or so

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3/15 Kain - FA - TC

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Lol I’m not upset, I just want to see actual dates. If you are going to go to all the work of making a chart of historical matches, it would be nice to see it reflect the proper weeks.

You’re right, the dates of the last two matches were wrong. Not sure how I missed that.

Instead of ‘March 15 – 22 2013’ it should have been ‘March 8 – 15 2013’ (aka last week).

And instead of March 22 – 29 2013 is should have been ‘March 15 – 22 2013’ (aka this week).

And as score update for this week:

1st Kaineg 29,781
2nd Tarnished Coast 19,998
3rd Ford Aspenwood 17,886

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WvW Leaderboard Clarification

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Man-hours played per match-up

You will have to break it down per time-slot.

100 people online for 1 hour during NA prime is way less valuable than 20 people online for 1 hour during oceanic prime-time.

I do not understand why ANet give the same amount of points for 20 players during off-times than they give to 100 people during peak-time. It makes the effort of people during peak-time much less valuable than the effort of people during off-times. But because ANet does it like this, it means that it is much less valauble to know the amount of play-hours per server.

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What profession most wvw loot bags?

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The guy manning the Arrow Cart.

^^

When you place an arrow-cart on a front-line tower or keep and get on it when it’s under attack, will get you alot of bags. Preferably a superior one, it does 50% more damage and has 50% more health.

But all in all, I find that ANet should come up with a system that accounts for heals, buffs, debuffs and even combo field starters too.

You can with one build…
- shout heal 4 people for half their health every 24 seconds
- give 4 people fury 50% of the time
- give 4 people 3 stacks of might half the time and 6 stacks the other half
- put 10 stacks of vulnerabilty on a target every 24 seconds
- put a fire field every 10 seconds
and not get ANY bags out of it.

That is unfair, plain and simple.

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Prices of Ectos being controlled?

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Wauw, so… if I read this graph correctly…

1,400 people sold 1 ecto.
1 person sold more than 2,544 ectos.

This game has some SERIOUS problems. I can only assume that people that sell more than -say- 1,000 ectos on one day are somehow tracked and, if they do it consistently, are monitored to see where they come from.

~1000 ectos = ~300g
300g is not a lot of money for one person to have :/

Well, I doubt that -say- 5% of the players have 300g. But that wasn’t the point.

Point was that if a player sells 1,000 ectos every day, that could be an indication that he found a way to exploit ectos. You can farm 50-100 ectos a day if you dedicate yourself to it. But not 1,000.

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3/15 Kain - FA - TC

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Personally I find it kind of exciting we are nipping at TC’s heels again. I also quoted these two matches to show how far we have come.

FA did more than nipping TCs heels, the last 6 hours of the match last week. It was the first time, as the record shows, that FA came close.

When FA made the final pushand had 450 vrs 50 potential point lead over TC, plenty of people on TC did the math and noticed that if we didn’t step in, we would loose our second place.

We’ll see how close it is this week, will be intresting for sure!

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Prices of Ectos being controlled?

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Wauw, so… if I read this graph correctly…

1,400 people sold 1 ecto.
1 person sold more than 2,544 ectos.

This game has some SERIOUS problems. I can only assume that people that sell more than -say- 1,000 ectos on one day are somehow tracked and, if they do it consistently, are monitored to see where they come from.

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3/15 Kain - FA - TC

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The complete history of the FA – TC matchup in the past…

October 13 – 20 2012
1st Blackgate 442,949
2nd Tarnished Coast 102,076
3rd Fort Aspenwood 83,220
=> TC wins over FA.

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October 20 – 27 2012
1st Tarnished Coast 413,816
2nd Fort Aspenwood 117,167
3rd Dragonbrand 82,352
=> TC wins over FA.

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November 17 – 24 2012
1st Tarnished Coast 227.668
2nd Fort Aspenwood 198.906
3rd Yak’s Bend 190.939
=> TC wins over FA.

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November 24 – December 1 2012
1st Tarnished Coast 256.950
2nd Fort Aspenwood 184.958
3rd Yak’s Bend 184.204
=> TC wins over FA.

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December 1 – 8 2012
1st Tarnished Coast 279.596
2nd Fort Aspenwood 176.299
3rd Yak’s Bend 167.087
=> TC wins over FA.

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December 8 – 15 2012
1st Tarnished Coast 261.804
2nd Crystal Desert 184.407
3rd Fort Aspenwood 177.955
=> TC wins over FA.

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December 15 – 22 2012
1st Tarnished Coast 279,542
2nd Crystal Desert 173,515
3rd Fort Aspenwood 158,201
=> TC wins over FA.

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February 2 – 9 2013
1st Blackgate 265,892
2nd Tarnished Coast 179,209
3rd Fort Aspenwood 162,260
=> TC wins over FA.

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March 15 – 22 2013
1st Kaineg 220,054
2nd Tarnished Coast 200,080
3rd Fort Aspenwood 193,536
=> TC wins over FA.

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March 22-29 2013 (too early to give meaningful data, but here it is anyways…)
1st Tarnished Coast 2,729
2nd Fort Aspenwood 2,688
3rd Kaineng 2,616
=> TC winning over FA.

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3/8 Kain - FA - TC

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False, non of this is true.
We dont hate anyone, we just look for good fights, TC cant do open field fighting, they are busy Roleplaying by the campfire.
So we go after FA more, they are enough to keep us entertained

We carry camfire kits just to put down and start pretending to roleplay, when we see Kainegs comming. Once you’re all gone, we start taking keeps and camps again.

We’re smart that way!

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3/8 Kain - FA - TC

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I’m more envisioning some General-type figure that overlooks the battlefield from on high and directs all the respective guilds and groups around. Because, like I said, we do have a tendency to tunnel vision.

I think that TC has the same problem. If there is one thing that I think TC needs to learn, it is to swap maps faster.

A guild usually stays on one map in TC, only leaving when everything is lost or it is out of danger. If guilds would swap maps faster, we would have more points now.

It is not uncommon to for TC to loose TCBL (again) to 30 Kaineg in the morning with only 15 TCers on it, while there are 10 TCers on FABL doing their thing and 10 TCers on KBL doing theirs and 20 on EB.

It’s the small price we pay for being a server with 100 smaller guilds, plenty of them RP guilds. I’m ok with that price: people having fun, people playing with friends, people achieving their own goals.

It may not be the most effective in WWW, but in the end the game is about having fun.

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3/8 Kain - FA - TC

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In fairness, I don’t think we’ve had anywhere as many transfers of guilds in as FA has, in the way of IOJ guilds in addition to 4 SOS guilds.

“You guys are only in T2 because you had a larger WvW population and better coverage to start with and then absorbed some of CD after they broke up in T3 in addition to other transfers you’ve received.” This is slightly inaccurate. We moved up to T2 because IOJ was imploding.

It is exactly because this constant ‘we are better than you’ attitude, that showing that we beat FA 8 times should show some perspective against these kind of claims. They can’t keep comming up with new excuses for getting beaten, can they?

How anyone can say that it is ‘undeniable’ that FA is better than TC at PvP, after being beaten 8 times out of 8 is beyond my small brain to understand.

It’s kinda odd that a post that shows pure facts about past matches, makes FAers so angry. Apperently, being reminded of getting beaten 8 times by TC makes some people angry.

So, what shall I do? Be quiet about objective numbers? Ignore the clear facts? Not talk about history because someone gets upset over it? Be bullied into silence?

No!
I shall be a beacon of truth!
I shall stand up against the censors!!
I shall continue to inform the public!!!
I shall keep giving unbiased information!!!!
When other fail, I shall remind people of the past!!!!!

I am Tallis, The Score Keeper and this is my manifesto!

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Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

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3/8 Kain - FA - TC

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Some history of the FA – TC matchup in the past.

October 13 – 20
1st Blackgate 442,949
2nd Tarnished Coast 102,076
3rd Fort Aspenwood 83,220
TC wins over FA.

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October 20 – 27
1st Tarnished Coast 413,816
2nd Fort Aspenwood 117,167
3rd Dragonbrand 82,352
TC wins over FA.

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November 17 – 24
1st Tarnished Coast 227.668
2nd Fort Aspenwood 198.906
3rd Yak’s Bend 190.939
TC wins over FA. Noticing a theme here?

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November 24 – December 1
1st Tarnished Coast 256.950
2nd Fort Aspenwood 184.958
3rd Yak’s Bend 184.204
TC wins over FA.

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December 1 – 8
1st Tarnished Coast 279.596
2nd Fort Aspenwood 176.299
3rd Yak’s Bend 167.087
TC wins over FA.

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December 8 – 15
1st Tarnished Coast 261.804
2nd Crystal Desert 184.407
3rd Fort Aspenwood 177.955
TC wins over FA. Well, yes, there IS a theme!

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December 15 – 22
1st Tarnished Coast 279,542
2nd Crystal Desert 173,515
3rd Fort Aspenwood 158,201
TC wins over FA.

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February 2 – 9
1st Blackgate 265,892
2nd Tarnished Coast 179,209
3rd Fort Aspenwood 162,260
TC wins over FA.

Thanks to http://mos.millenium.org/matchups/histories for keeping track. Cause some things are worth remembering!

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Current score…
1st Kaineg 156,589
2nd Tarnished Coast 135,905
3rd Ford Aspenwood 127,008
TC wins over FA.

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Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

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Please reduce excess surplus of supplies

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Yeah, the amount of useless items on the TP is mind boggling. Some forge recipe that gives -say- a small change for any 4 items to give some higher-valued item.

That being said… the main problem with the TP is the UI. The information that people get about an item is different for buyers than sellers, you constantly loose your search results, you don’t get a decent look on items you sold and bought, you can’t even filter armor or weapons for your class.

The UI needs work. It’s been 6 months now, that’s long enough, me think!

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

What if there's a Loan Market in-game?

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What’s the difference between this system and just selling your items on the TP then buying them back later?

That you do not run the risk that prices 3 folded by then.

Another question is ‘Why would anyone take the risk to take collateral that may be worth less in the future, making the buyer walk away from the collateral’.

The prices in this game are messed up. They go up and down more than in any other game. Collateral needs stable (or at least predictable) prices. GW2 is faaaaaaaar from that ideal.

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

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At what level do you get the Priority banner?

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Hi!

On your log-in screen there are three banners, one for each of the orders.

At what level of your personal story do you get that banner?

I know that somewhere around 27 you have to pick an order in your personal story and you can not change it anymore. But the banner doesn’t show up yet at that level.

So, at what level does it show?

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

Precursors and Patches and Market Changes

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Lmao, it was way easier for someone to get a legendary closer to launch. Way easier. No overworld DR, crazy variation in mat prices, dungeon runs with no DR, and 10g precursors.

Yeah, but I think that Anet saw the $$$-opportunity here: it is next-to-impossible to get a precursor without buying a bunch of gold through gems.

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

2013 - BG-Kain-TC

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Aaaaand TC did what we hoped to do, stay in T2 with the current points.

If you want to keep the cute, sweet, adorable, nice TCers in T2, please don’t hit us too hard!

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

are globs of ecto going to tank?

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I think it’s hilarious when I’m looking at a million post patch salvage results and you tell me I’m wrong.

Unless you do not look at results one-on-one but per person, your numbers don’t mean anything. It is not because you see that in 1.000.000 salvages people get ectos from 3 in 4 tries, that the results are random. You would need to check all sorts of factors.

Unless you have ran numeric analysis to confirm that (say) people standing in LA have the same odds than people elsewhere or that people who salvage slower have the same odds than people who salavage faster, you can not conclude that there is nothing wrong.

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

are globs of ecto going to tank?

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I have a run of 1 ecto from 25 uses of BLK’s… that has a chance of:

0.000003% chance of happening.

0.000003 is incorrect, it is way lower. 0.000003 would actually be acceptable. It would mean that out of one 100 million tries, 3 would have this result. There are 3 million games sold, so this could certainly happen. But in reality, the odds are waaaaaaay lower.

Assuming that…

- the salvages are independent from each other
- a BLK has an equal change of giving 0, 1, 2 or 3 ectos.

… then he odds of having 0 ectos for…

- 1 salvage is 25% (1 in 4)
- 2 salvages is 6.25% (1 in 16)
- 3 salvages is 1.5625% (1 in 64)
- …
- 24 salvages is +/- 0.000000000000355271% (1 in +/- 281.000.000.000.000)
- 25 salvages is +/- 0.0000000000000881784197% (1 in +/- 1.125.000.000.000.000)

… and the odds of getting ectos out of exactly one salage in…
- 1 salvage is 75% (3 in 4)
- 2 salvages is 37.50% (6 in 16)
- 3 salvages is 14.0625% (9 in 64)
- …
- 24 salvages is +/- 0.000000000000255795% (72 in +/- 281.000.000.000.000)
- 25 salvages is +/- 0.0000000000000661338% (75 in +/- 1.126.000.000.000.000)

Sure, you can say ‘hey, that’s possibile’.

But if I were Anet, I would…
a) see if it’s true what this person says and that he did indeed get 1 ecto in 25 (personally, I consider this claim dubious, sorry to say)
b) agree that this is statistically next-to-impossible: this is less than 1 in 1 million million, so unless a million people did a million times 25 salvages this is extremely unlickely
c) fix the RND

I would certainly not do what Anet did here: basically telling their customer that they are wrong.

And even if Anet still claims that their RND is perfect, then agree that this type of bad luck (1 out of 25) should not happen and fix it, by tinkering with the odds and put some mechanism in place where you can’t have a string of bad luck.

Now… I understand that GW2 is a pure lottery. If you loot a cursor, BOOM, you are rich. If you do one lucky forge, BOOM, you are rich.

But certainly Anet has to see that these kind of odds are very, very, very unfair.

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

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Help; I don't understand gem supply concept

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The price changes pretty often, how would I have time to post on the forums?

Make to show up automatically in the TP.

You didn’t answer the other questio,though: when I buy gems with dollars, do they substract from the supply (I guess not, but no word about this at all)? The opposite, when I sell the gems that I bought for dollars, are they added to the supply?

At one point, the gems from dollars must be added (or must have been) to the stock of gems to exchange for gold, or there would never been any gems in there.

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

Guild Missions Fail

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I agree, the first step (Bounties) should be more accessible for small guilds too.

Maybe one day they will add somethig to this extend.

Or give a chance for a reward to guild-membersof guilds that helped out but did not research.

But the current system is indeed bad for small guilds. Or WWW guilds that don’t want to invest all three build queues into this.

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

Claw of Jormag - No Chest

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Maybe this has more to do witht he fact that you now can only get one chest per boss per character per day?

If you do the dragon two times in the same day, are you supposed to get two chests?

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

Daily: 6 categories complete, no reward

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Jumped from 4/5 to 6/5 completes. Strange bug, but understandable why we’re not getting a reward. Just hope we can still get it.

It happens when you finish two achievements with one kill (like kill a 5th Yak, which also gives you the 5th event if you haven’t done any other events).

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
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(TC) Looking for PvE guild.

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Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
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Dungeon Patch Discussion 2/26

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Great catch – I did in fact do something to spy kits (both OOW and Ash Legion) that got dropped out of the patch notes by accident (Stealth stealth nerf!). I’ll go make sure they are properly put into the patch notes.

When you say that you did ‘something’, did you mean ‘I nerfed them so bad that they now got a 60 seconds colldown, so they are pretty much wortless in the fractals’ or did you mean ‘no, you don’t get reimbursed for the ones you got’.

Oh, wait, you did BOTH.

Odd that it’s always bad news that gets forgotten.

Good job!

Tallis – Perpetual newbie – Tarnished Coast.
Always carries a towel – Never panics – Eats cookies.

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