And yet OP you fail to see how this affects the other aspects. The “buffs” do not make up for the heavy nerf being received in many regards. The new change for instance, cripples rifle even more than before.
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I’m kind of worried about the future of killshot as well.
One small buff I thought they could perhaps give it is to make it unblockable by default. That would at least give it a way of overcoming one kind of expendable defensive resource.
Also, does crack shot not make killshot pierce? If it doesn’t, it probably should… only makes sense, given what the trait does.
It does, but I can’t recall if a blind or such prevents it from piercing. I know buffs like block and invulnerability stop it from piercing.
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With the upcoming changes to adrenaline and burst abilities, of all the weapons that get hit the hardest I believe Rifle got it the most crippling. Especially given that so far, the only “buff” to Rifle is one that was needed prior. However the newest changes to Adrenaline make the Burst skill quite laughable especially since Cleansing Ire won’t even benefit from its glaring many weaknesses.
Invulnerable
Evades
Blocks (Unless you activate Signet of Might)
Blinds
Stealth (If you didn’t pre-channel prior)
All those already were very strong on completely shutting down most burst skills, but even more so in regards to Rifle. Recovery was a bit easier with having to only deal with the 7-10 seconds of cooldown. However now, with all those listed above you also now lose your adrenaline.
The AA buff isn’t going to be making the adrenaline any less of an issue especially after shutting down the rifle’s only notable upside.
Also keep in mind you still suffer;
EXTREMELY Telegraphed Attack.
Rooted In place.
1-1/4 Cast Time.
Single Target.
The reward versus risk for the rifle is a complete joke and will be even more so come patch time, especially in PvP based modes like WvW and PvP.
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Mostly Plunt, not really out of choice to be honest, but he seemed to be the loudest of the bunch and well… He’d never let it go if you didn’t save him first. You know Asura and their superiority thing.
Next was Jennah simply because she was closer. Surprisingly enough Smodur had actually broken from his Charr bodyguards to help and attack the mobs around her. was quite surprised and wasn’t sure if it was intended.
Good thoughts on the Peace Treaty to come?
Following that, I helped clean up the last of what the Iron legion charr were battling before helping Knut. Not that he needed it, he seemed to have fun.
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How about fixing some bugs that would actually make the mesmer more useful instead of fixing the minor bugs that only cripple them more? Think the mesmer has already gotten enough crippling ‘fixes’ lately.
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I’ve been playing my mesmer alot more frequently as of late actually. I don’t know what much of the complaints are, especially in tPvP. Thieves are the only ones that give me trouble and typically only the good ones, but can still handle a good portion.
Granted, I’m running a rather unorthodox build than most likely do. But I enjoy seeing even Warriors and Guards melt.
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Agree with that. At the moment the warrior has no weaknesses. #2 best condition removal in the game is not a weakness and adrenaline is always up. Watching the warrior streams shows that Adrenaline is max long before the cooldown for the F1 ability is up agin
Thing is, some Warriors want their adrenaline bar to remain full. Especially when alot of traits rely on it to be so. Quick adrenaline gain allows one that does rely on such to spend their burst and quickly regain the lost trait bonuses much quicker to recover.
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The Texas IP is you logging onto the forums – that’s ANETs servers.
Have you had any other ips show up apart from that?
Is it? Cripes, here I was having a shock for nothing if thats the case. Perhaps thats why I never got the email.
But no, as far as I can recall, there was no other IP’s but even still for someone whos account paranoid with all these hacked accounts going on, Anet would make sure to label their site IP in that manner.
Even still, would feel alot better if my account was locked in such a fashion still.
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So to start off, I (as well as another household player) have not been receiving any emails whenever there is an unauthorized login from a different location.
Nothing in either my Junk/Spam or Inbox to notify of such.
To make matters worse, both of our accounts within the last hour or so were accessed from a location in Texas. (We live in Canada…) Even after such we saw nothing in our emails regarding this login.
A password change was immediate, however I’m feeling this is no longer enough.
Is it possible to prevent ANY login from a location other than an authorized one? I’d much rather deal with the hassle of providing support my information to authenticate additional locations than feel vulnerable again knowing that even with my secure password, I’m still getting logins and can do nothing to stop them.
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An interesting idea, but it suffers greatly from the power creep. instead the Support Power should make existing stats for boons, like regeneration based on such effectiveness.
Swiftness Speed % is based on it.
How much power and condition from each Might stack is dependent.
Protection’s damage reduction % is also touched.
Fury has its % changed accordingly.
Regeneration can stay as it is, given how its already affected by this.
Stabilty, given its scarcity I don’t think should be touched by this change.
Vigor’s endurance regeneration increase would also be scaled.
Not only would this make spamming boons a bit less powerful, but it would give Support classes even more reason to play their style as it means alot more benefit from boons, much like the opposite of condition users.
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Queen’s Gauntlet is great for leveling lowbies. Went from 1-80 in a week.
The XP from the events on each champ, then the huge boost after completion and then the donation XP for spending a single silver? almost a guaranteed level each run.
Not including the Tomes you can also buy from the tokens if you do enough as well.
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I was kinda hoping LA wouldn’t have been rebuilt. Because that would actually make these passes useful. Now, there isn’t any huge incentive to use these, if anything, more of a pain with nothing going for it.
Currently its still faster for me to go from PvP or WvW to get to most of my services. Plus, they don’t make me load twice when it somehow doesn’t recognize I have the pass after 5 minutes of either relogging or going from PvP to said ship.
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Don’t buy any of the unlimiteds unless you want aesthetics. If any of the picks are even close to being worth anything now, its the Sprocket Pick, everything else is inferior to the functionality.
I don’t care about the looks, I bought them for the convenience of not having to carry around backup tools or need to swap one while the game considers me to be “in combat.”
Which is all well and fine, I thought the same way. But had I known they’d release one with perks. I wouldn’t have bought the previous ones. Plus, nothing says they won’t release more ‘improved’ picks.
Just know that it lacks the added feature despite it having the same pricetag. If that’s cool, feel free.
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Don’t buy any of the unlimiteds unless you want aesthetics. If any of the picks are even close to being worth anything now, its the Sprocket Pick, everything else is inferior to the functionality.
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This is one of the reasons I’m playing my Warrior alot in PvP simply because ‘Champion Legionnaire’ is the closest thing to such a title in Charr standards. But yeah, as mentioned above, it was a real big troll on the game to be like “I shall give you the title, Champion of Orr” then never actually receive it. XD
Still, if they added something like Order missions or such to unlock such titles int he future, I wouldn’t mind.
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If that’s the storyline where the Risen are attacking the Priory, you get the special weapon to clear the lab and then fight the “big boss” then, no, the new balance change didn’t make it a cake walk, it already was from the start. Having 14 toons, all but 2 prior to the patch.
I don’t think it was intended to be all that difficult. Everything except for a few cases, after Claw Island are almost cinematic story missions. There’s very little challenge or needs. Most you can just outright skip combat.
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Perhaps in the case of bosses and powerful attacks being reflected, perhaps it should be treated as if it was sourced as damage from Retaliation instead in a manner? That way the damage is still there but it isn’t overly abundant.
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They actually kinda had a bit of a ‘finishers sample’ back with the old PvP rewards. I think it was in the Mystery Coffers or Tourney Chests, but I got a number of consumable finishers that were limited from such. Would be neat if they did so somehow again. It’s the reason I bought the Sanctified Finisher.
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So, weapons with effects applied to AC weapons are more intense? This only at night?
Haha, now if I could just get the normal AC weapons to lose their blue glow permanently I’d be set..
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It’s not that they are useless, (well maybe light fields are near the bottom of the useful totem pole) its the fact that they are pretty much just a mere footnote to players in the game mechanics, therefore many don’t utilize them properly.
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This is the exact same as Karma gear in PvE, one could say badges are the equivalent of such.
Many would likely agree this should be changed, but its hard to say what effect it would have on the games economy. Which is likely why they’ve remained so.
Except they aren’t equivalent since they cost GOLD + badges. They need to make them salvageable.
They used to be salvageable, the changed the cost a long time ago at this point to cost fewer badges. Since the amount of WvW badges you can get would allow for a larger flood of MF exchange and raw mats they chose to save the economy and make that impossible.
So its ok to flood the market with dungeon stuff, but with www stuff no?
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Dungeon loot is limited in a large way to 1/day/path where WvW you can zerg all day, *cough*hackgate*cough* and get endless badges. If they capped the number of badges a day like they do for hj in spvp then I would be on your side but alas it isn’t.
Also lets not forget the large amount of badges you get from achievement chests as well.
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This is the exact same as Karma gear in PvE, one could say badges are the equivalent of such.
Many would likely agree this should be changed, but its hard to say what effect it would have on the games economy. Which is likely why they’ve remained so.
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Fight the good fight buddy. Though, if they don’t respond to a 1,000 reply post with major concerns about the game, I sincerely doubt they’re going to reply to this one. ArenaNet seems to have adopted the policy of brushing things under the rug in hopes that people eventually forget about them.
You’d be surprised what may get a response. If you look at the game bugs forum you can see that certain developers are active in their areas. (For example, an audio developer obviously won’t comment on this or on megaserver problems, but is extremely vigilant for audio bugs and problems). It just depends on whether the right developer sees it.
Looking at the “Watchwork Pickaxe” thread, which is still being constantly revived with no response, doesn’t give me much hope this will ever be looked at all that seriously. It’s Charr, they already said they don’t care.
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Considering rifle was my primary weapon in PvE and WvW I was sorely disappointed with how it competes in the PvP standings.
The damage output isn’t bad, but there’s no mobility and the only defensive option for it is the #5.
However, the Rifle’s greatest weakness I found was the constant spamming of blind that makes it utterly useless in most matches against decent players. It’s why the longbow was generally favoured more because of such.
The telegraphed attacks and wind-up for killshot certainly didn’t do it any favors either.
I’d like nothing more than to use it effectively in all game modes.
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I also like the tail-dragon!
The female version is tail clipping.
A plus is that thay actually made one for each gender this time – that has NOT ben the case for charr – until now.
Actually there’s been a few versions that differ for each gender.
The Wintersday and the Witch’s outfit if I recall correctly. Probably more too.
Personally, I kinda wish it wasn’t the case here.
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I don’t mind the outfit for the female charr, but honestly I would have liked the option to have the male version if I so desired. My charr warrior isn’t one to enjoy the ‘dressy’ type of clothing and enjoys the uniform regal looks that her male counterparts share.
Though the weird slit cuts on the chest do nagg at me a bit just for how odd they appear.
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They are only a time saver if you can manage to complete a multiple gambits fight, otherwise there is no advantage to using them and only risk being lost from being handicapped.
You get the same number of bags as you would fighting an enemy 5 times versus a 4 gambit fight.
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Do you have a total of 4 of them each equipped to a separate piece of armor.
The PVP Build automatically applies all 6 upon equipping. So that’s not an issue.
Unfortunately I haven’t tested this rune myself since it was never really one I found appealing.
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Well think of it this way, he technically won. He’s really the only person who can make a suitable trade with the Zephyrites now since with LA destroyed, Kiel kinda botched that portion.
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I doubt they’ll remove it. Would require quite a major overhaul of both mechanics, enemy behavior, personal story instances and more. Doubt its worth the time invested to bother removing it. Most people avoid it anyways.
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I only miss my Unidentified Dye drops. =(
Probably the one thing I did enjoy always seeing.
The other stuff is nice and all, but it wasn’t something that usually peaked my interest upon notation.
Not sure why, just something about Dyes.
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The fact that the Trove and cave are of the same permissions really makes me alot more wary of allowing my members access to the other tiers of the bank to begin with.
Been hoping they’d implement this when they mentioned the ‘anti griefing measure for guilds’ but sadly I haven’t even noticed a single change in that manner at all. Let alone one that could be helpful like this.
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Should the peace treaty be canceled, I think it’s more interesting to ask:
- What would happen with the three orders and The Pact? Would charr and humans still be able to work together?
- How would the other races react? Would they ignore their war, or would they take sides?
The Orders are above the issues that the regions have. They state this a number of times. Even Hiroki (the human) in the Vigil said that fighting the dragons is more important to her than protecting Queen Jennah. Logan wasn’t exactly pleased with this answer.
So I don’t think the Pact would be affected all that much, maybe some slight tensions. But overall it wouldn’t affect it quite as much as one might think given the Pact’s goals are different than the regions and their politics.
As for the other races, they suffer their own problems and/or lack the resources needed in order to wage any notable wars. Joining or choosing a side would bode ill in either regard as well. So I don’t think they would get involved.
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If it says 0 as the number of charges, the change is free. It will pop up with the transmutation notification even if your recoloring something, so don’t worry.
You can get charges via map completion, daily rewards and other places as well as the gem store.
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I have no idea about PvE items, but are they superior, inferior or equal to the PvP items?
Technically, weapons in PvP have no stats. When you hover over an item in the mists, those added attributes or rarity have no effect.
Every weapon has 0 attributes and is considered exotic in rarity (for damage purposes) in PvP regardless of what weapon you are holding. Be it a simple White or even an Ascended.
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Nothing more satisfying than my Kill Shot being the doom of any annoying Stealth thief. One of the few perks to using a rifle.
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I do have to say, I’m not sure why this wasn’t implemented from the get go. It’s not like you can use Luck for anything else or even trade it.
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I think thats simply an issue with the LOD they have for it. Many things look alot worse if you manage to catch it before it can switch to the higher end models. It’s to help save on performance but overall sometimes like instances there it can be pretty noticeable.
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Mystics are incredibly valuable. Not sure why you are using them over the infinite kit considering it has a lower % return. I really hope you haven’t been salvaging all your rares with that inferior kit.
Any rares or exotics I get I generally use a BLSK for. Hence why mystics aren’t really all that handy for me. Use the Salv-0 for clearing out the blue and green junk overall that clutters space rather easily during dungeons, events or WvW stuff.
I find the mystics to simply be an unnecessary middle ground for me is all.
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Wish I could honestly trade or sell them, would gladly give them to someone who wants them.
With me having the Salv-0-Matic, no real use for Mystics. (Got plenty of BLSKs too) so honestly they are just collecting bank space for me.
Don’t plan on using them for RNG forging either, too unreliable.
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Indeed, for most games, tickets can take up to weeks being processed. The few I’ve sent in have maybe been a week tops and the long ones were due to a heavy load of tickets (such as the recent refund requests).
They were concise and professional. Makes me want to send thank you notes to every GM that does support.
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They either decided against it or merely improved the chances instead. Alot of the on-crit sigils had the %’s improved.
Either that or they were talking about the Sigil of Intelligence where its 100% TO critical hit.
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I’m not really sure what happened during the transition of the townclothes, but the sunglasses seemed to have suffered a bit in positioning or scaling of some sort. Back when they were on townclothes they seemed to fit rather snugly on my Charr’s snout. But now it seems a bit awkward, any chance this could be fixed?
Not really sure if this is actually a bug.
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Same name sigils do not stack.
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I know it’s a dumb question but… What categories do we use to properly submit a formal refund? There’s a few categories that seem rather vague and could lead to something else entirely and I don’t want to submit a ticket in the wrong place or give Support the wrong idea of a different action wanted.
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That was more than amusing in more ways than one, glad to see this stuff in game. only thing I regret was not being there to see it personally!
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Your equipped PvP will be replaced with PvE armor. If you want your original look back, you will have to use the charges provided to apply it to your pve armor.
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You don’t have to worry. Any unused skins you have will still be usable as per normal like always, but you’ll have the benefit of also having them unlocked for future use if you so desired. (Good for say, if you had a weapon skin you wanted, you could used the unused version on one and then reapply it using a charge on another.)
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Town clothes will either be tonics or outfits. Not skins. Therefore creating a new toon for patch day will yeild you the default outfit. Which should be accessible for your other toons.
The only things that are actually turning into skins are headgear.
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EotM is where I go to train people about WvW without crippling anything in the normal modes.
You can learn alot there without having to worry about people screaming at you that you are doing something wrong. You can experiment and try out new things without people breathing down your neck and the constant worry about PPT. This is where it shines.
I know alot of people that avoided WvW because of the harsh people expecting everyone to know the ropes day 1.
Sure, its a karma-loot fest for some, I use it as a tool.
Also, some epic fights can still be had, heck, perhaps even more so than in normal WvW given you have to be aware of your surroundings.
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