Guild Wars 2

Zanshin.5379:

Yeah I’ve seen miasma events completed several times.
Although, some specific ones always fail. No matter how many people there are.

because less people is more

These events are easier to complete if there are about 5-10 people, if you see more than that, leave, go somewhere else.
The more people there, the higher it scales, the harder it is to complete.

wait you’re failing because you’re against n00bs? 0o…

am I missing something?
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anyway yeah .. post here https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/pvp/pvp

Skugga.5298:

Slowpoke.2749:

To the people telling the poster that chests should be avoided at all costs: if everyone took that advice then you would have no skins to buy off of the TP. Some people take the initiative to gamble so you lot wouldn’t have to.

I can agree that it can be fun to gamble, but when real money comes in between I would advice them not to do it.
The price of those keys are way too expensive to even think about buying them, I really don’t get people who do so.
After the few keys I have gotten due to my personal story I’ve already noticed how bad those chests are….

^^^^This!!!!!!!!

If the chest had a higher chance of something good, more people would try them. Or the keys should be cheaper, much cheaper.

I can tell you exactly how many of them afk.

example: Is on the computer, doing something else(study work).

keeps an eye on time.
At xx.04 or 05, opens up the game, runs at portal.

leaves game window.
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some have the decency to at least hide …. but thats what most of them are doing, I actually doubt many are using bots.

Some stay in game and end up chatting/ TP. But I’d say the majority spend 5 minutes every hour to get in and then close game window to do something else.

They have no need to bot.

Traveller.7496:

It’s really those commanders that are doing the community a disservice with their selfishness, they should know better.

This is true actually, in main map AG, anyone with a commander tag is asked to turn it off, ..most times they do and the event runs smoothly.

Problem here is overflows.
People still assume that overflow=event will fail. And so they don’t bother anything but farming. And many commanders don’t care either.

Traced.3495:

Taygus.4571:

MithranArkanere.8957:

I have bag full of junk. So it’s highly likely that they will stay.

So far the only Living Story item that has been destroyed is the golem summoner from the last Halloween. Using it after halloween just deletes it.

I wish they did the same to all these items with no purpose. So I can know they have no use by double clicking them. I’m not deleting them otherwise.

I agree actually.
I feel bad if I have to destroy something. like it “might” be useful for something sometime XD.
It would be nice if at the end of an event, they gave everything a vendor value, so you gain something from them ):

I don’t agree. I keep stuff purposely as keepsakes. Going from Flame&Frost trophies to tri-color and cypher keys. The usable items are not for use. ^^
/sane

But I don’t expect blade shards (or anything else much) to just disappear. I’m half expecting them to stay available in some form but this is just guessing. I wanted several thousands to slowly (over months/years since I don’t even have maxed crafts and I refuse to buy stuff from TP) create the backpieces. My only problem is that I can’t get enough of them if they aren’t available after the patch. ;_;

LOL … keep it to just look pretty in your bag? :P

I have 1500 shards as is, I hope they bring it in as a new collectable/crafting item, and allow trade/sell. I hate all this account bound stuff.
But if they don’t getting enough shards to make the back piece for character shouldn’t be hard.
And why make more than one back piece? there will be others brought in that you’ll likely want anyway.

Put it this way. heirloom question has been asked over and over again. And the Devs have said nothing.
Better safe than sorry and don’t count on it being around after the 4th

They might, they may not.

I can’t see how we’d go fighting for LA, while theres STILL civilians to rescue.

to make sense story wise, there would be no more citizens in LA, there would also be less time we could stay there as there would be a lethal dose of miasma around. (unless of course we all get gas masks or something)

Seras.5702:

Could we please at least get a red post saying IF anything is going to be done or if my farmed heirlooms are just wasted on a potentially fantastic item with horrible clipping/sizing/position issues?

I have a day and a half to make a decision on which potion to get and so far, neither of them look good on my asura main.

This^^^^ .. how hard can it be to say, “yep, we’ll fix this/no we won’t”.

Guess I’ll be saving my gold and choose alliance bags instead.

Elrey.5472:

You missed the biggest problem: Balancing pvp and pve.

The perfect solution for pve wouldn’t work for pvp. The perfect solution for pvp wouldn’t work for pve.

As long as Anet doesn’t realize that gw2 is getting massive problems of balance because of it, they won’t probably change it. Sadly i’m one of the guys that never plays pvp and i notice how much useful the cap for pve would need to be removed, but i also understand how dangerous could be for pvp if it was removed

leave the cap for pvp then?

kitten.8042:

I have literally bought the game after being bored of ahem WoW after what looks like a fantastic game. I would like to get some friends also on this so will join the server you are on and maybe go from there Is the server you on a England based server?

I dont think there is an EU “england” server….
But Aurora Glade is filled with those from England and elsewhere, plenty of people on from say 6pm onwards.

feel free to hit me up, if you want

.I mostly end up without a floor/skills. XD

I haven’t seen the chessboard yet XD

Shrimpkin.4851:

webtoehobbit.4201:

How the heck am I supposed to get enough Dragonite Ore to get a Vision Crystal for the Spinal Blades backpiece when no one is doing world bosses cause they’re just doing LA? And before you tell me, “LA gives you Dragonite Ore” yeah, not much anymore cause all people do is farm Heirlooms, which doesn’t get us to 1,200…… So do I have to wait till Season 1 of the Living World is over to get the Dragonite cause people keep farming for that ugly halo?

If it wasn’t account bound, I’d send you so much bloodstone dust, dragonite ore and empyreal fragments that you’d hate me. I’m trying for the ascended backpiece, but other than that I don’t craft s** it just sits there…mocking me.**

LOL.
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I still dont understand the reasoning behind making it account bound, when other materials are tradeable.

Aerinndis.2730:

If they are needed then for goodness sake put them in the collectibles just like the watchwork sprockets otherwise they are taking up valuable bank and bag space….

Sure you can only have 250 /500 in collectibles anyway, so would still take bank/bag space,
I’m just using an alt for storage XD.

MithranArkanere.8957:

I have bag full of junk. So it’s highly likely that they will stay.

So far the only Living Story item that has been destroyed is the golem summoner from the last Halloween. Using it after halloween just deletes it.

I wish they did the same to all these items with no purpose. So I can know they have no use by double clicking them. I’m not deleting them otherwise.

I agree actually.
I feel bad if I have to destroy something. like it “might” be useful for something sometime XD.
It would be nice if at the end of an event, they gave everything a vendor value, so you gain something from them ):

You said it yourself from 40 to 76.
Higher levels have more skilss and can do more aoe damage. The level 80 boost isn’t much stat wise, and does nothing about the lack of skills.

The best level to then level in LA, seems to be at mid 30’s and up.

Mikuchan.7261:

What about toggling off enemies? I think it’s immersion breaking that there are enemies running around everywhere.
They are also in the way when I’m trying to explore and do jumping puzzles.

On this, sometimes my game loads badly and there’s no enemies XD.
Sadly it’s never at useful times, like in LA, during a rubble search.. ): … ..

I find all the backpacks a lil annoying too, OP, but at the same time, showing off your character is part of an MMO, alot less people would get stuff/wear it if they couldn’t show it off. (or knew a large number of people or going to block it)

Kitta.3657:

This thread has a well done summary of all the issues with both potions and I really do not want it to die down.
The clipping through the hair (thoughtless potion – horns) making it close to invisible (if not completely) with asura is absolutely shocking and shameful.
I am inclined to believe this would have official responses if it was in the gemstore *¬¬

Of course.
If people spent real money on an item and arent happy, they can make a fuss and get the money returned. So its in anets interest to solve that as soon as possible.

This on the other hand, how many people will stop playing over this?

And how many people (who buy gems frequently) will stop over this?

All I want to hear is a “yes, we’re looking at an always on option” or “It will not have an always on option”. ..“we are looking at it’s graphics/we are not”.

But I suppose if they told us they aren’t looking at it. Less people would buy it while hoping it’ll get fixed.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

My issue is thus:

I need the supply bags to get shards… but saving civilians (which is sort of the object of the event) is less than rewarding (for bags) in comparison to zerging or event farming simply due to the distinctly fewer kills in a lot of instances.

I rarely do anything but save civs, and I have more shards than I can use.
Getting bags is very easy and you can get them from mobs while saving civs.(which you do have to fight to keep the path cleared from them.)

Yeah I was shocked when I saw the halo cost 10g!!..with the all the work of finding heirlooms it’s very unfair.

But it seems the majority of people don’t really care, a little annoyed but not enough to stop them paying.

I’ve kind of given up on the halo/horns. 10 g is part of that, but the main reason was not having a simple toggle always on/off for them.

I’ll be well surprised if people hand over their gold to you. Precursors are one of the most wanted things in the game.
And extremely valuable.

How about,
Sell your real soul for cash and trade it in for gems, then trade for gold.

I doubt it’ll happen, but seems interesting/fun XD

OR…it’s temporary..and they’re not changing it, because they’ll have to change it back?

wouldn’t it be easier if they just made it so you could trade ascended trinkets back for laurels(less than it cost of course)?

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

mercury ranique.2170:

This goes from simple things as coordinating (‘need more people in sector orange’) to explaining those things.

it’s not as simple. What is sector orange? You can’t see the routes on the map ingame. Users have created those maps with green, orange and red routes depending on difficulty.

It has become quite a disadvantage to play the game without a guide. I don’t like this direction. API Websites… no thanks. Finding out when the next Worldboss arrives – dragontimers. Meh. Why not have the sky turn black above the zones on the ingame-map to indicate a world boss arriving?

dw,
just ask them where, and they link something from the map.

Whenever I ask people to join me somewhere. I normally use map terms, (eastern ward for example) I always link to something near.
Not everyone does, all you have to do is ask where.

Then anyone going there, please say, ..to prevent 10-15 people going to the same place when about 10 of those could continue off somewhere else.

Alot of people don’t use mapchat, which doesn’t help in an event that requires coordination. Overflows don’t help when they mix english speakers with non english.

Many times I’ve been shoved in an overflow and there’s german going on in the mapchat. Surely they could organise overflow to not mix regions like this?

From what it seems overflows are a combined of all EU or NA servers, It would be a little better if they overflowed Desolate, with desolate overflows. (for example).
Like the overflow would be comprised of only desolate and people guesting to desolate, it doesn’t seem like atm, this is the case? I could be wrong though as idk

Doggie.3184:

Screaming is very healthy for you. Go outside and try it. Scream as loud as you can.

Worked in a company that had a small sound proofed room, with a sign on the door “please scream here”.
It was well used.

you could try trading with a guild member, I’ve gotten 3 endless already , black/green/blue. Gave black & blue away ….. I want a pink ><’

Wanze.8410:

CrossedHorse.4261:

I am not asking for the backpieces to be tradeable (obviously, if they were, I would maybe exclude Ascended tier and only allow up to Exotic), just the shards needed to craft. I don’t think that would do anything but make a few people happy?

If Spinal Blades were tradeable, which ingredient for the backpieces would not be tradeable?

Why not have it all tradeable?

CrossedHorse.4261:

I do agree that I don’t quite understand the point of going afk in LA at the moment – the rewards are hardly worth it, and you’d probably get more loot just running around a map somewhere killing trash mobs.

Easy, ~logs into game, goes to LA, afk~

Then goes do some work/study/cleaning etc.

free loot.

RedStar.4218:

I regularly use it (well not so much this week) and I never saw a bug. It might be dumb and don’t get offended, but are you correctly aiming at the downed player ?

Yeah I am, like I said it works without fail on npc’s.

Heck I’ve made sure players were right in the middle of it, …and still nothing.
/:

Substance E.4852:

I like the subdued look to it, but I agree on the illogical 59 minute duration and reapplication after zoning. If the birthday booster and food duration buff can last 24 hours and persist beyond death and zone change then there’s no reason this buff can’t as well.

This,
I really hope they come up with a way that these cosmetic potions don’t turn off unless you choose to.
(and I hope they use the same formula for mini’s, )

timmyf.1490:

Rezz.8019:

It is very, very unlikely that all overflows were full. Unless you were there 10 minutes before the event finished…
If you are all there in time, there is no way that overflows would be full so fast. That’s how overflow maps work. So yeah… pay attention next time.

I went through the portal at the same time as my girlfriend. Immediately when we loaded, I tried to join on her. Full. Then she tried to join on me. Full.

The overflows were filling within 10-15 seconds of creation, as best as I can tell.

go in late.

Don’t go into map at xx:07 or whenever it opens, wait til xx:012 .. overflows being created should even out then.

I can’t say I’ve had this issue, I have yet to be split from a party made before hand.

here, https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/livingworld/escape/AFKing-in-LA/page/5#post3687297

read how many players don’t give a kitten……… \=

I missed out on the pick, was going to buy the next version……but not buying this because it doesn’t have 20% of something extra. I see no reason to go for a gem item when ingame “temporary” items do the same.

I was hoping it would be a continued theme. ):

Dr Ritter.1327:

AND WHY CANT I USE IT IN A DUNGEON JUST FOUND THIS OUT

I suggest you lurk the forum next time .. this has been asked a few times, and still no feedback from anet >:[

join a guild…. a friendly one, they’ll map with you. It’s a mulitplayer game, after all.

mercury ranique.2170:

a: it only works on downed players. This is intended.
b: There is a known bug where it doesn’t work on downed players with only 30% health left and on downed players who are poisened.

and yet I’ve tried it on many players that weren’t poisoned, in the downed state and it fails to rez them.
Maybe it doesn’t if they have any conditions, but that makes it a pretty useless signet.

Why does it work on npc’s when they’d be “dead” not downed?

sure we only need a 1000, isn’kitten .. I have 1500 already, getting them is easy.

We’d only need more, if we’ll need them in the future and if we need them in the future, there’s going to be other ways to get them.

Kal Spiro.9745:

AFKers are not making it harder to do anything. Other players are doing the same thing they would be doing whether they were there or not. Nothing changes. A handful more people won’t change anything. Even several handfuls won’t change anything.

There is often about 10 afk’s by each portal. then I normally see about 5 across the map.

Thats at least 35 players, out of 150………..
are you actually saying that 1/5 players doing NOTHING, won’t make it harder to save 1200 civs?
I mean seriously?
Thats one player in every party doing nothing, not even trying to do something they are doing nothing.
And that isn’t going to have an affect?

Leo Paul.1659:

Taygus.4571:

Leo Paul.1659:

Taygus.4571:

Kumu Honua.2751:

Taygus.4571:

They are denying the success of the event!
How is it people can argue differently???

So are the people who are rubble clearing. So are the people who are zerging miasma events. So are the people who don’t know what the are doing, so are the people who are waiting to get rezzed instead of waypointing. So are the people who are running non-zerk gear. So are the people who are underleveled. So are the people who have terrible builds.

Ban them all!

Note: This is sarcasm to make a point.

At least most of these are/were doing something. Not just standing there for free loot.

They are denying the success of the event nevertheless. You’re not gonna go off about intention too, are you?

Actually most people I’ve seen going for rubble encourage/rez a few civs along the way, ..those who died were likelly fighting in an event.

They are doing something!

Players logging in to just afk, make it harder to reach 1200 civs, it’s really that simple.
Then they get loot for doing nothing at all.

While other players had to work harder to reach the tiers.

Pure speculation. Say those afk players were to participate and upscale events then end up denying other players of getting the triple threat achievement? (yay i can use slippery slopes too)

This is getting rediculous.
Are you denying that players enter LA, just to afk for loot?

They stand around wp. (or other ‘safe’ places) using auto run/heal, for the ENTIRE event.

It’s simple, they are getting stuff from other peoples work.

They are getting something for doing nothing at all, and worse, they prevent other active players joining together by taking spots, which makes it near impossible to reach the tier.

Really, how can you defend that??? …unless of course you’re one of those afk’ers.

Leo Paul.1659:

Taygus.4571:

Kumu Honua.2751:

Taygus.4571:

They are denying the success of the event!
How is it people can argue differently???

So are the people who are rubble clearing. So are the people who are zerging miasma events. So are the people who don’t know what the are doing, so are the people who are waiting to get rezzed instead of waypointing. So are the people who are running non-zerk gear. So are the people who are underleveled. So are the people who have terrible builds.

Ban them all!

Note: This is sarcasm to make a point.

At least most of these are/were doing something. Not just standing there for free loot.

They are denying the success of the event nevertheless. You’re not gonna go off about intention too, are you?

Actually most people I’ve seen going for rubble encourage/rez a few civs along the way, ..those who died were likelly fighting in an event.

They are doing something!

Players logging in to just afk, make it harder to reach 1200 civs, it’s really that simple.
Then they get loot for doing nothing at all.

While other players had to work harder to reach the tiers.

Kumu Honua.2751:

Taygus.4571:

They are denying the success of the event!
How is it people can argue differently???

So are the people who are rubble clearing. So are the people who are zerging miasma events. So are the people who don’t know what the are doing, so are the people who are waiting to get rezzed instead of waypointing. So are the people who are running non-zerk gear. So are the people who are underleveled. So are the people who have terrible builds.

Ban them all!

Note: This is sarcasm to make a point.

At least most of these are/were doing something. Not just standing there for free loot.

I can’t believe people can defend afk’ing (those in paticular who log in to afk…and there is quite a few)

It doesn’t work on downed players either …. thats why I posted here. s:

And so far, it works for npc’s every single time. But its extremely random, and rare for it to work on players.

So, I guess it’s bugged then?! .. ):.. .. and has been for awhile /:

people have been asking for extra slots in hero panel for mini’s since the start of the game.

I’m guessing there’s some coding issue that Anet hasn’t worked out yet to make it possible.

It’s actually disappointing.

Leo Paul.1659:

Ashabhi.1365:

Leo Paul.1659:

Why should anyone give up his/her spot and forfeit the reward in an event just because he needs to do something important IRL for more than 15 minutes? That’s what overflows are for in the first place. He’s not denying anyone their right to participate in the game by keeping his spot. It’s not like people who can’t get in main can’t play the event entirely.

If something in real life takes more than 15 minutes, you should probably remove yourself from the event to do it. It’s called consideration.

It’s not like the event takes too long to get back in. In the “old” days of gaming, some raids only happened once a week. AFKing for a few minutes got you kicked from the raid group. 15 or 20 minutes would insure you weren’t ever invited again.

I would bet that the ANet people are able to tell if someone is temporarily AFK or just leeching.

Consideration for what? We have overflows so anyone can participate in the event. Nobody is technically denying anyone anything by staying in their respective maps.

They are denying the success of the event!
How is it people can argue differently???

each event needs to be successful in a cycle. You can take part in one, but it still needs to succeed each time in the cycle.

KarateKid.5648:

Taygus.4571:

Durzlla.6295:

Ganathar.4956:

Galowin.6089:

u don’t need to farm to get blade shards, i’ve done both the zerging and ran a rescue party, did the event maybe 6-7 times and I have bout 1500 blade shards.

Some people are casuals and have limited play time so they will need more days to get enough blade shards. There are also people who want to make multiple backpieces, it all adds up.

Then we also have other reasons why people might zerg as well as my previous post implies.

I’ve played for a whopping total of 2hours since the event came out and already have all the blade shards i’ll need for the Ascended version of the item and I don’t stick with the zerg in the slightest, if too many people show up to an event (champions and elites are only types of mobs) i just leave and continue rescuing Citizens, so your argument is a load of kitten…

^^^^^ this, alot of people don’t seem to realise this at all. It’s very annoying.

I often post asking for civ rescue teams, more times than not I’m ignored, other times I get replies like “I’ll do what I want” .. “YOU go rescue civ’s” … and the very odd time, I get a team to work with.

I also find that people enter overflow and assume it’s impossible for an overflow to complete it. However I’m only ever in overflow and I’ve seen it completed multiple times.

I’ve seen similar messages while running around rescuing civilians (usually with a group of 4-6 other random players). I never answer them… too busy looking for civvies for one; and secondarily – already in a little zerglet, so why would I answer? That might be contributing to your lack of responses.

Might be, but you do realise parties are necessary for the likes of hooligans cavern and then down by the beach there? and around the vista?

IT’s much quicker if people work in parties and try to organise things via map chat.

The times I’ve seen 1200 saved, there was constant map chat “need people for civs @ [here]” and people worked in teams.

I often find myself joining a group of random people without partying.. but generally partying makes it easier.

And if everyones in parties, you can organise via map chat for groups to go to areas where there aren’t anyone.

Which works a little better than just saying “here needs” and everyone goes there.
With the party way, someone says “here needs” and you go my party will be there. So other groups can focus on other areas.

Its just quicker/easier/higher chance of success

JakeG.9620:

How long do I have to get one of the two tonics? Will we stil be able to collect heirlooms after next release?

You have until March 4th, plenty of time.
Try to join up in civ rescue teams, if the event is a success (1200 saved) thats 9 extra heirlooms!

afk’ing , is NOT playing.
You cannot call it a playstyle, because they are not playing.

I’m not talking about those that might go there and chat or TP.

The majority place their character there and then go do something else.
Probably work or clean. They are not playing. It’s not about play how you want, they are actively NOT playing, while taking a spat in the map.

The force the rest of us to fail. Like I said if 30 or so players are afk, it’s next to impossible to get 1200 saved. Often reaching 900 or so, but never 1200.

This isn’t fair, and the people who afk, don’t care that they’re making it impossible for those actually playing.