IMO you can’t compare 13 LI with 5 pips.
You should compare something like 13 LI with 10 pips or 5 LI with 5 pips.
I’m not comparing 13 insights with 5 pips, I comparing game modes and the time it takes to max out the weekly currency for each. For wvw, it’s 365 skirmish tickets. Pips are just an incremental reference for earning them.
I know how long it takes to clear all of the raids and how painful it can be to pug it or learn it from scratch.
I also know how long it takes to finish earning the max weekly currency from wvw. Some of us have spent infinitely more time learning to excel at wvw than most people have even spent in the raid instances.
I get that a lot of people consider the raids “advanced” content. It may require coordination/sufficient dps, but it is static content, which is why my friends and I find the raids so easy to do. 4 to 6 hours a week. Bosses can be killed in 5 minutes.
It still takes 2x to 4x as much time to finish diamond every week.
I don’t PvP, so I don’t know how long it takes them to max their currency every week.
Edit: also, the number of pips earned do not impact how fast you earn wvw ranks. That hasn’t changed. The only thing pips are a reference for is how fast you will earn the skirmish tickets.
At this point, it’s about how long it takes to earn the reward.
For legendary armor paths:
Raids = max weekly insights takes 4 to 6 hours a week.
PvP = I don’t do this, someone else will have to answer this.
WvW = at 5 pips, max skirmish tickets takes 24 hours a week.
5 pips is pretty standard; last place is 3, 1 for previous week credit, 1 if you’re at least bronze.
I keep seeing references in threads to WvW being a game mode based around epic, large scale battles.
Epic, large scale in wvw means the blob of 50-70 is attacking a tower with 0-20 people in it.
Occasionally, when there are no PvDoor events going, moderate sized blobs face off against each other. When they do, the larger blob nearly always wins because it lags so bad that each side is only auto-attacking. You can be on the other side of the map, and when two zergs are in SMC, the skill lag prevents any skill usage or comes with a 5+ second delay.
I remember how the biggest wvw problem year one was culling. With the changes to culling at the end of the first year, skill lag became the biggest issue. 4 years later, skill lag still persists, even in T4.
Thief has a lot of broken mechanics atm, that will likely never be addressed. The damage from Bound is higher than a lot of skills and abilities in the game. Although not the only class with damaging avoidance mechanics, there is no reason dodging should deal direct aoe damage (or any damage at all).
Just like it makes no sense that thieves (or any class) can start their spike on a downed player and use other abilities while casting it. Spiking a player should be all or nothing. Not, start spike, teleport away to continue your cast from 600 away safely, than port back as the spike finishes to kill the player. Or rangers using signet of stone during, or engineers using elixir S. So many things that need to be fixed.
As several have said, it is both space saving and a gold sink. The unidentified item could be basic garbage or a precursor…you won’t know until it’s ID’d. But, taking my example of over 5,000 hours played and no precursor, if I start ID’ing all that gear (hoping to finally get one), I just lose money, cause the items are barely worth more than the cost of ID’ing.
Here is something to note: it is silly for loot to be one way in the expansion and different in the core game. Which means, if this is the route they are going, they will be changing core Tyria’s loot to be on the same system. All of the named exotics will increase in price tenfold.
Likes:
I like Elona
I don’t dislike the addition of mounts
Dislikes:
Mounts can’t strafe, or even sidestep
Unindentified gear: I get the gold sink; I get the space saving idea; it’s current implemention is a hassle and just going to lose players. Would be less bothersome if loot was sorted by rarity like the black lion chests (exotic unid., rare unid., and everything else unid.) Although, I am not a fan of reimplementing unidentified loot.
Also, it’s not just the rank 1500 armor that upgrades. Any of the wvw ascended armors upgrade, which makes it have the same requirement time (roughly) as raiding.
Edit:
The following PvP and WvW ascended armor can be upgraded to allow stat swapping:
• Triumphant Hero’s Ascended Armor
• Mistforged Triumphant Hero’s Ascended Armor
They allow them now. They are not enforcing the policies they have written even if they weren’t allowed. I have had people whisper me and comment on my gear because the meter they are using not only shows dps, but every item you have equipped, inlcuding runes and sigils.
Certain other regions of the game allow these things. They are not allowed here, but Anet doesn’t really care at this point.
I’m not very high ranked (only Bronze – took a break for real life/kids) and am on a last place server. I have earned 3,902 pips this match. Granted, this was an odd week and I got a fair amount of playing in (middle of the night losing sleep/couldn’t sleep).
Yeah, since the druid conversion shield isn’t blocking, there is no reason the signet should matter. The shield is supposed to convert projectiles into heals, and this isn’t happening. I tested it a couple times, and it goes right through the conversion shield every time.
The last time it killed me, gun glame went through both sublime conversion and wall of reflection (from Guardian) and still hit me for damage instead of healing me or being reflected.
Sublime Conversion:
Summon an energy barrier that causes enemy projectiles to heal upon impact.
The primal burst skill Gun Flame does not heal. It ignores the barrier (despite being a physical projectile) and does damage instead of healing every time.
I think they were just confused about the reports people were submitting. Blue glided into OW after we took it back, but they did it from Ogres not from anything they changed. The picture shows where they glided down from.
The airspace at the bluff was Veloka anyway, so there was no way to take OW and exploit gliding in to Veloka. All this did was make it improbable that a 3rd place team (red) could ever defend it. No siege at OW and most of the Overlook keep siege now hits the mountain.
I’m on TC and we see some groups that refuse you if you can’t join voice. I understand the reasons, and when the commander has that requirement I just do something else.
I’m usually scouting/refreshing siege/responding to callouts/trebbing even if in raid, so no big deal.
Voice is fast and efficient and allows combat while talking.
This is not an option for everyone. Personally, I have a toddler and due to said toddler do not have a headset anymore (and can’t afford a new one). So, any voice chat for me has to be speakers with no mic. Most voice chats are not toddler friendly (they are sponges and will repeat everything they hear) and at night, since she is a light sleeper, it still doesn’t work. The chair making a creaking sound wakes her, and then she is less than pleasant.
You can always just follow the tag without being in raid. Just be aware of your surroundings.
Can we please get the ability to lock which reward track it chooses?
Currently, it finishes a track and put the extra earned in to the next track it chooses. For me, it always seems to jump to a dungeon reward track which just wastes it.
I would like to be able to lock it on the triumphant so it only ever repeats that.
They nerfed 8 of 9 classes today, thief got a buff. Now, some of the changes coming in the expansion are already in the classes on live. That being said, the nerfs across the board were to sell the expansion. Same thing happened for HoT, only this was more drastic/noticeable, because they had to nerf some of the HoT power creep (look at warrior for instance).
The repeat of diamond 6 gives nothing, because it has always had a repeat chest.
1-5 they overlooked the repeat and it gives 14 tickets when it should give 0 also.
They said it is unintended and will be fixed. Enjoy it while you can.
I guess I was wrong. Deadeye won’t be the most broken thing this expansion.
This is so absurdly broken compared to anything in the game it’s not even funny.
I can totally see way more open field siege (esp balis)
Balistas can’t hit targets RP walking, there is no chance they will hit a flying target…it isn’t a flak cannon.
But yeah, can’t run past the blob on the gate at Ogrewatch, just glide from Overlook and you’re there. It will definitely be useful for last place teams in match ups with the terrain.
I’m on TC. Even when we were in T3 and still falling we lost guilds to BG. It makes no sense that the T1 server would be open and the almost constantly outnumbered T3 and falling server would be closed (at that point anyway, that’s been a while back).
I get that they don’t want anything to happen to BG, but they need to revisit their current setup.
I would think not. The stat combinations in LWS3 are HoT (so would require it). No reason that stat changes for a HoT item would include the NEXT expansion.
Kind of like how the core Tyria items, and even the LWS2 items don’t include HoT stats now.
Obviously an old keyboard not gamed on. Everyone knows people macro everything in to one button. So, the worn keys would just be the movement keys (if they don’t mouse move) and 1 other button.
It’s a pretty simple answer.
HoT masteries are what unlocked the ability to earn core Tyria masteries, and through such, autoloot.
PoF masteries will work the same way, no reason for them to change the coding. Access to PoF masteries will grant the ability to earn core Tyria masteries.
The ability to autoloot is a core Tyria mastery, meaning that the Provision Master track is tied to it.
Owning PoF, but not HoT, will 99.99% chance grant you access to Provision Master trait in WvW. It may have it’s own track that includes PoF recipes and not HoT, but the trait will be about the same.
I’m kinda hoping that there is some difference from the Nightfall plotline. Right now, it sounds like a shot-for-shot remake.
Didn’t you know that’s all the rave now. Even movies.
Jurassic World – identical plot/story to Jurassic Park 1.
Star Wars Ep. 7 – identical to Ep. 4; starting to look like 8 is just 5 redone.
I could make this list longer.
That’s all anyone does anymore, change a few items, but basically just a remake.
There is no diminishing returns if that’s what you mean. You will be killed long before any mythical DR/immunity appears. You can be immobilized, knocked down, and stunned (with 0 chance to use your character or any abilities) until you are downed/spiked. Kind of like pulls. I’ve been stuck in a pinball effect in an enemy zerg for long periods with no way to escape prior to death. I laugh pretty hard when it happens.
I get that HoT, and the lead up to it, was Sylvari focused.
I get that PoF, and the lead up to it, is Human focused.
But, forcing the PC to join a secret Human order (with all that it entails) is ridiculous.
I am Asura. Neither I, as the PC, nor most of my race would join the Shining Blade…ever (and 99.99% sure would never be allowed to in GW1).
Someone at Anet decided to write the story as if this was GW1 (I get the throwback attempt that is going on with the run into Elona for PoF). GW1 only had playable humans…I get it. This is horribly written for GW2 where there are 5 playable races, 4 of whom are NOT human.
With regards to the “magic bomb” people are talking about. I think I would just go stand next to the leader of the Shining Blade with someone who doesn’t have the clearance to know about it and tell them the secrets. That’ll show ’em.
Well Joko is not unfamiliar with concept of allying with outsider heroes to secure his ruleship.
Balthasar going in with all the forged blazing would be most likely perceived by Joko as a threat and by thus I’d assume he ould respond with force, and wouldn’t mind us joining in – the question is tho – if we would want to ally with him.
Certainly I’d not :P
I am happy it’s going to be PvE expansion.
for a “PvE expansion” I must say it introduce an awfull lot of PvP elite specs – we can only imagine what influence on WvW and sPvP will these have….
WvW
-Deadeye – it will be ridiculously OP/broken
-Holosmith – the dawn of the suicide bomber; people will charge up and run in to enemy groups to detonate (I’m calling it now)
-Spellbreaker – the aoe silence on warrior will be horribly broken
-Scourge – some people will try it and realize that standing still means you already died; successful blobs tend to walk in a circle like Nascar
PvP
-the only place Mirage might get used, it’s the same crap dps we have with scepter just new animations; can’t be used with shield (Chrono) – likely will never be used by 95% of the playerbase
Doesn’t look like a swap. The different utility skills that “use” the heat you generate have different weapon appearances. So, wielding a sword, the utility gives it a rifle to “use” the heat, and with the heat gone, back to sword.
One big question I have about this new hall is, what about players that don’t buy the new expansion? Like with the old one, players who didn’t buy HoT couldn’t use the HoT Guild Hall features. But lets say you have a guild were 95% buy the expansion and 5% don’t. They can use the current HoT hall, but presumably they wouldn’t be able to access the new hall, so if you switched, they would lose functionality in the process. Is there some plan in place to resolve this? Will HoT-only players be able to access the new hall?
I’m sure you’ll be able to enter the hall, just like non-HoT players can enter the HoT halls. You just won’t be able to use it’s features. No reason it would change.
Engineer has one, and anyone who raids has the consumable portal. Nothing to see, move along. Literally, nothing to see. Watching the video on how hard all the other elites hit, and than seeing the double digit numbers from mesmer…/sigh.
Two years ago they made a promise: every new expansion would contain previous expansions for free. Now people have to buy them in bundle.
Two years ago they also made a second promise: with every expansion release, all non-upgraded accounts would get previous expansions for free. Now old accounts of core game will no longer get HoT.
Seriously ArenaNet?! You started breaking promises now?
Sorry, that is completely inaccurate. Please read the materials again, as we never made such comments or promises at any time.
Business Model Clarification
…In the future, if we release further Guild Wars 2 expansions, we plan to offer all of the prior expansions, the core game, and the latest expansion for one single purchase price.-GW2 team June 22, 2015
I think some of you are missing the core concept at the heart of the OP. they are disappointed with the fact that there are no major changes for other parts of the game coming with the xpac. this has nothing to do with them wanting an xpac based on those areas, or even the way in which anet releases content for those areas.
content updates for said areas of the game would make the xpac more alluring for other players I think is what the OP is trying to say. I would agree if this were the case.
I don’t see the difference … historically, Anet made changes to those other parts of the game exclusively OUTSIDE of the first expansion … the reasonable person would expect the same for the next.
Nerfing the dungeon drops and than abandoning that content is not really an “update”.
I think some of you are missing the core concept at the heart of the OP. they are disappointed with the fact that there are no major changes for other parts of the game coming with the xpac. this has nothing to do with them wanting an xpac based on those areas, or even the way in which anet releases content for those areas.
content updates for said areas of the game would make the xpac more alluring for other players I think is what the OP is trying to say. I would agree if this were the case.
It has been in nearly every game for 15 years, except this one.
Is there any chance this is included in the upcoming expansion? As it stands right now, boss fights are just a giant f/x blur, and the new elite specs seem to triple the bright flashy area of skills.
