Guild Wars 2

Just put this guy outside the safe zone for 10 minutes. 10 minutes, and I’ll forget the last 4 hours. I’ll shove those bold undertones so far up his kitten they’ll knock out his teeth. Sitting there talking about petty palettes with his non-combat zone, I’ll show him petty palettes from the inside out.

~Terraa

/e: got him. Took some serious luck, trying to time belches, but make sure you don’t blow Boast unless you’re certain the next 3 drinks will land you below 2k hp, for maximum damage when you belch.

I promise you this: if someone finds an exploit that allows you to kill non-combat NPCs, I am coming back to Hunter’s Hearth and farming him until my hands are bloody. Furthermore, I’ll be quoting back every line he’s used ad infinitum while I do it.

It’s doable now, yo. I’m 3/8. I’m also pretty sure the achievement’s sticking around after BotFW is over, since it’s the only method we have to obtain charged quartz crystals.

~Terraa

This thread is 5 months old. The discussion on it stopped long ago. Let it die.

~Terraa

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

and how would you define an act of griefing as?

This is the heart of the argument. It’s so frustrating when people kick around the word “griefing” as if it’s the new “terrorist”.

I saw my younger sister get visibly upset that somebody was stealing blocks from “her house” on Minecraft, claiming that he was griefing her. For…moving blocks around. It was difficult to explain to her that there are, in fact, probably 300 other servers she could play on where he could not follow, and probably even single-player (I don’t play, please give me some buffer-room) where she could build houses all day. I suppose she thought it was more fun to stick around and harass/be harassed in chat.

Does nobody remember the days when griefing meant tppk in hardcore D2? Having to dodge other player’s PvE AE attacks, just in case they town portal and hit hostile while you’re in the middle of what was a benign attack an eighth of a second ago? Or someone corpse-camping you in a duel game, especially when you made a mistake and half your gear is on each corpse, such that if you just leave the game, half your stuff will be missing?

Now, if there’s a dude hiding in cheesy locations, not finishing the puzzle, looking for an easy jump…maybe. He might actually be going out of his way just to make other people upset. But what do you lose, 10 minutes of WASD-spacebar movement? D2 griefing you could actually lose any number of really expensive items that could take weeks to recuperate, with very little effort expended from the offender. Unless the dude is actually stealing your gear and gold (or causing them to rot), it’s a completely different subset of system abuse.

The point being, if you just walk away from the computer when someone is camping you in the jumping puzzle, you lose…the chest at the end. And that’s about it. Four weeks’ worth of magic finding gear won’t disappear on you if you just alt+f4, so it’s not griefing.

~Terraa

Ultima Thule.3950:

To go around in a downleveled character is 10% of the fun you would have doing it on level. Not to mention the rewards won’t be up to par (I know that they might drop something for your real level tho)

Contrarily, I find it more fun. It’s much easier to get away with mindless slaughter when you’re downleveled and overgeared for content. It satisfies my Dynasty Warriors complex, and when I want you-must-focus content, I can do fractals or dungeons. Add in the fact that they drop equal-level gear, it’s a win-win. Additionally, if exploration were account-wide, leveling alts would suck.

~Terraa

I disagree. How else are we supposed to smite the evil tyranny known as Sea of Sorrows when we’re getting roflstomped across every other avenue?

~Terraa

In what way is this an exploit? Is someone using it gaining an advantage over someone who doesn’t? Are their colors damaging your photosensors? Will you require medical attention?

I’m actually struggling to find a reason, any reason at all, as to what kind of damage item-link colors could possibly cause. I’m struggling harder to try to find out why you’d think it’s an exploit — it really makes no sense. It can’t possibly hurt you.

~Terraa

Whoa, slow down. There are still a lot of armor sets without particles on them; lemme get my hands on particle armor. I still play EQ, and I’ve been staring at the same plate armor graphics as I have been since 2001. Particles on armor are still cool to me.

~Terraa

No way, dude.

Play from your soul.

~Terraa

Vayne.8563:

The problem is, to go with those tables, someone has to buy boxes…without knowing the odds.

I guess that’d be fair, if it were the only way to obtain them.

I don’t know. Maybe I’m just not seeing the point because I think the Jade weapons are ugly.

~Terraa

There were threads yesterday trying to collect data on average chances for things to appear from the boxes. By now, tens of thousands of these boxes must have been opened — large enough for a sample size to give you approximate data. And hasn’t the wiki been collecting data as well? Why not just go with those tables?

Palador.2170:

This is as fair as expecting the players to report any interesting and potentially game-affecting things we find.

To quote their own forum code of conduct page (https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/forum-code-of-conduct/):

Our Philosophy:
Keep it clean
Keep it civil
Stay on topic
Be responsible
Share your knowledge
Report posts for removal if they violate these standards

It would be best if they are responsible and share the knowledge, right? It’s no less than what they ask of us.

Nevermind. While you’re at it, post the source code for GW2. Nothing less will satiate the masses.

~Terraa

You’ll always be criticized by others if you win against them. It’s the Internet. You’ll also be criticized for losing, or for speaking, or for being too quiet, or for using any number of “cheese” strategies, nking, tppking, telehammering (oh man, the memories)… PvP has never been the attractor of the world’s most polite individuals.

But again, you’re fighting at the Rabbit level. Give the thf time to figure his class out. Hell, start of the game I was always duoing with a thf — and I loathed Heartseeker to the point of calling it OP myself, til I realized how to counter it.

~Terraa

So you have something like 9 thoughts in one thread; a misnomer for a title (you don’t seem confused at all); a sample-size of five and try to contrast “overpowered,” especially at the bottom level of the sPvP ladder; what goal were you trying to attain when you posted this thread? I’m feeling some serious confusion stacking just trying to make sense of this maze.

I’ll answer your two organized questions, though.

1.) WvW will up-level you if you aren’t max level. Your gear will still be kitten. Some of the better benefits of doing WvW at 80 are about gear; you can focus on three stats instead of one (at the low-level range) or two (at the mid-level range). Gear does get scaled up, but only so far as to make those one or two stats more powerful. Other benefits include traits, skill points, etc etc…
2.) Every single class has threads in their section complaining about how OP they are. I’m sure they’re taking each and every complaint with the utmost sincerity, instead of completely disregarding anything but very specific skills like a sane person would. Winning 4 out of 5 of your duels in sPvP at Rabbit level certainly isn’t going to send up any red flags to ArenaNet.

~Terraa

But OP, camping a specific spawn or area for a chance at a lucky drop is the epitome of grinding. Is this your first MMO?

Jumping and not dying.

Mamilfero.1086:

I WANT A QUICK ANSWER TOO.

Okay, get to work again. Chop chop.

Of course it will.

pretty sure this will be available to all levels. They’re making a big deal out of making sure everyone can attend, it’d be silly to exclude anyone not level 80.

Never had a problem with my character’s geometry causing me difficulty in the puzzle. Finished it about 20 minutes after I started.

Human female. Fun puzzle. Inform your friend that he’s bad at platformers.

Negative. I like the end-game. 377 hours and probably 250 of them at 80.

Funny, same thing happened to me. The bar’s empty, and I’d completed it earlier today.

The value’s probably still saved anyway, a small hotfix will probably fix it.

Sure thing OP, we’ll just have to balance elementalists in a way conducive to your request — let’s say, by subtracting some of your burn

You aren’t unfamiliar with the law of equivalent exchange are you

So, the Arenanet defence force that is a large chunk of this forum tells us “Reward demanders” that while Guild Wars 2 should only be played for fun and when your done stop – claim to us that:

I stopped here because I’m pretty sure aneurysms can be fatal. Congratulations — your topic sentence is actually physically damaging.

Well, there’s the reward for leg-

Excluding the reward for legendary items you get from getting the 100% completion.

F…fun? I don’t know what you’re looking for. A shinier star?

GW1 login is down too! =(

Oh man, I don’t. I’d’ve actually held out on completing my last zone if I knew the star made our clones less distracting.

It doesn’t show at all in sPvP though, so it’s not the end of the world. Only detriment really is WvW in small skirmishes, which sucks but we’re still pretty hard to kill anyway.

no dev in his right mind would read let alone take to heart that block of unformatted QQing.

Forget the devs, I just read the topic sentence. At least, what I assumed to be the topic sentence. Blink shouldn’t be used to circumvent terrain like you’re describing — it sucks to have it fail on some geometry, but after the hundreds of blinks I’ve done, there haven’t been more than 5 instances where I thought I should be able to blink, but it failed. It’s significantly more forgiving than other games where a blink ability is available, in fact.

For being effective, 5s (traited) would make it okay and probably even on some skill bars.

I think 5s is way too fast. As it is, 30s is pretty good — I have this ability perma-slotted. Positioning is so important in PvP, that I wouldn’t trade it for a phantasm. Escape, chase, dodging spells and attacks, getting out of binding roots, getting out of any immobilization; stack on the dodges, and I’m frequently invincible. I’ll grant you that in PvE, the rules could be bent a little more, as it certainly cuts down on how badly it sucks to be without any runspeed, but 5s is still too much. I wouldn’t scoff at a 20, though. A shorter cooldown when the blink doesn’t take us anywhere would be cool, though.

Crothen.2687:

Exactly so you get to grind yourkitten off farming all day for gold, oh and exploring the whole world too, just to get a weapon that LOOKS PRETTY

LOOKS PRETTY is pretty much a driving factor in everything I do.

This is the final, what-do-I-do-when-I-run-out-of-stuff-to-do quest. And from the looks of it, it’s gonna take significantly less time than GWAMM, or even EQ’s epic 1.0 quests (except wizards, wizards suck). There’s more to come, count on it.