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you feel proud?
Yes. The server got transfers just like the other two servers and they won with them. Great work from everyone who contributed.
You’re daft if you’re still at the stage where you think your server hasn’t had transfers.
Uh, it’s not difficult at all for Mesmer’s to apply Confusion that deals over a thousand damage (although “over a thousand damage” is par for the course for just about most things).
I mean you’re only kitten out of luck if your purge is skill based, but whatever. That and high rate attacks/haste.
I only use Confusion(/condition) based build in WvW, because it’s useless in PvE mostly. So I guess it’s back to Zerker.
It’s an arch. Orrians were kind of obsessed with them. Wouldn’t be surprised if it was purely decorative.
This game has tons of content for players to enjoy at max level with the list to include*: world exploration, jumping puzzles, WvWvW, sPvP, dungeons, Fractals, mini-dungeons, economy trading, Keg Brawl, Costume Brawling, dynamic events, guild missions, and more. *(Mentioned is permanent content, not including this month’s SAB each other month’s Living Story content).
I like how more the majority of that list is not max level content, or content that you don’t even play your character for, ie. SAB and Brawls.
So for people who spend the time to gear their characters and learn their skills, and who also want large-number coordinated play, that leaves WvW.
So… Stop asking for raids people. We’re drowning in options already.
Whaaa?
You sure your client isn’t corrupted or something?
How bout your PC specs? CPU, GPU, OS.
This isn’t a common problem… So far as I know
This is for people who play on the lowest character quality settings for WvW, where placeholders are used.
I don’t mean missing animations, I mean the placeholder animations don’t properly show what’s happening. This seems odd to me because things like the Fractal Capacitor and The Anomaly and every Legendary will render and consume resources, but it doesn’t show whether someone has been knocked down or not. Stuff like that I consider crucial information.
Ideally at the lowest settings above just nameplates, you should have a single generic model for each class and the same basic skin for every weapon and accurate animations. Instead we have a number of models for the same class, all weapon skins rendering, and insufficient animations.
More over, nameplates display the useless WvW rank, rather than class. Considering they’re there to substitute for the loss of visual data, the nameplates should indicate class rather than rank.
further tweak the rendering?
Or is this it? Haven’t been up to date with the WvW fixes, but since it has been a while now it’s kind of starting to bug me. So if someone could fill me in, thanks.
What I’m looking for really is any news on whether or not they’re going to streamline the models and add animations. Because as far as I can tell resources are being wasted rendering pointless things, while at the same time crucial information (like animations) are not being relayed to the player.
further tweak the rendering?
Or is this it? Haven’t been up to date with the WvW fixes, but since it has been a while now it’s kind of starting to bug me. So if someone could fill me in, thanks.
What I’m looking for really is any news on whether or not they’re going to streamline the models and add animations. Because as far as I can tell resources are being wasted rendering pointless things, while at the same time crucial information (like animations) are not being relayed to the player.
Oddly, Spatial Surge now has an enormous AoE effect around your target that only affects structures.
I thought it was pretty amusing during CoE when I could hit half the turrets when the beam only ever touched the Golem boss. Subject Alpha’s spines went down really quick with this as well.
I don’t really know how ANet set out to let Spatial Surge pierce targets and somehow gave it structure-only-AoE…. Weird.
Yes, the system is terribly flawed.
Make it 3/5 already, ANet.
Play for like a week or two and when you have both your rings you’ll have more PFR’s you know what to do with.
I agree.
I was doing the Harpy fractal today and there were two harpies, one I was attacking and one behind it. I was on the platform of the first one, killed it, jumped to the next and it was… invulnerable.
Pretty ridiculous. Occasionally when the game doesn’t know how to interpret ranged combat they will go invulnerable, but when I was meleeing the whole time? That’s just inexcusably poor design.
You were just unlucky.
Humans of course. They at least know how to lay out a city.
It was made much, much easier.
Tried p2 last night with some guildies and gave up after an hour and a half of just ghosteater. We can do the co-ordination to charge the traps but i believe we didn’t think far enough ahead. It definately needs a full team. Some kind of VOIP is also a good thing (saves time typing). I suggested several times to have 1 person call target and others on trap duty. In hindsight, i should have gone further to say have the team split to 1 target duty, 2×2 on trap duty to fill 2 traps at the same time. When GE loses his shield ofc all dps, when he regains it drag him over to the 2nd charged trap, BUT 3 dps and 2 peel off to charge the 3rd trap. This would prob have to be repeated. Is there a better/more straightforward way of doing it?
Charge all the traps. Lure him into each of them and DPS away.
“I guess one could use the excuse of your just being lazy, well so be it, guess every other player is just as lazy for using the in combat weapon switch macro of “~” also.”
…are you serious? Even with using their in combat weapon switch macro, they are still ONLY getting 10 skills. While we have 20 already without even having to worry about a swap. Since we have TWICE as many abilities as they do in combat, that means they have to swap their weapons out of combat TWICE as many times as we do. We DO NOT need an out of combat swap, it is completely unnecessary, and i’d rather the devs spend time on doing something productive rather then catering to the few lazy eles out there who have to moan bout pressing a button and clicking twice on their keyboard to swap a weapon in a game.
You didn’t read anything except what you wanted to huh? First off how does in combat abilities relate to an out of combat situation? Secondly I already stated that there are more important issues at hand right now. Lastly what kind of a player are you to deny something that has an out of combat utility of something we can already do, then taking that and streamlining it? That is like being fork lift certified and going to a job where you boss ask you to move a pallet of cement bags ( 500) and telling you that you can choose to use the forklift or carry them by hand and time is not a factor and you choosing to do it by hand. If there is a chance to stream line something that will not make the elementalist or the engineer overpowered then why not do it. Cause switching a weapon out of combat is already possible so that is not changing what they can do, it just changing the speed in which they can do it.
So again unless you can give some concrete proof that this will be game breaking, and the you have X amount of skills in combat BS argument holds no fluidity here as this is an out of combat discussion, then why are you arguing it?
There are only three reasons I see why anyone would argue against this
- They don’t play an elementalist
- They don’t understand what is being suggested
- They are a complete Idiot
Now I am not saying anyone here is either one of those as I do not know you, but you have to fit into one of those, unless someone can explain how streamlining a process for two professions that they can already do is game breaking.
So, to sum it up, you are just extremely lazy. That is all. Just play the game. ANet obviously has a problem with it, which I agree with, and it is for the best. Like i’ve said, it takes all of TWO seconds to switch. Oh no, I have to click my mouse a little bit more. Lol like seriously? If you don’t like the mechanic eles have and its just SO much of an inconvenience to you, go play another profession. Trust us, we eles won’t miss ya.
Right, so if it’s so trivial, then ANet should add the function. It’s a matter of convenience not balancing or mechanics, and to deliberately inconvenience someone in this manner is just lame. Glad you also want ooc weapon swapping.
My guild just took 4 lvl 80’s and a lvl 63 into AC explorer path 1 and could not get past the Champion Spider (mostly because of the little spiders)…after running this dungeon many, many times. Wait, before you say we’re built wrong…we’re all accomplished in PVE (with 100% world completion, daily farming in Orr, and able to hold our own in WvW).
IMO, it has become way too hard since the latest patch on February 26th. I feel that this game is becoming too frustrating. Since there are other options in the MMO world, I’m thinking of branching out and trying others because of this. Is anyone else feeling as frustrated as I am?
Yeah, well that’s your problem. There shouldn’t really be any mini-spiders around when you fight the Champion. They should only last maybe 30 seconds into the fight before you focus them down and start hitting the boss.
Plus they don’t even hit that hard. I run that on my glass cannon Ranger and they have itty bitty venom spits. Stark contrast to any schmub in SE hitting me for 2k.
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They’re there, being attacked. That’s like the whole point of the Sparkfly Fen zone. IIRC his presence is also felt in Timberline Falls, but less so.
They may not be Risen but they’re definitely getting killed.
Everything was nerfed, though.
whaaaaat have you been smoking and can I have some lol.
I’ve been smoking the easiest runs of AC I’ve ever done since the patch happened.
It’s virtually fool proof now.
No, I mentioned SM because I like to watch videos of it.
So preset snowfall is worst than dozens/hundreds of unique character models running around spamming animations and visual effects?
Man, I never realized how bulky automated raindrops were.
Well that’s your problem then. You should realize how much the game can handle.
Everything was nerfed, though.
Nice pointless, unfounded sarcastic remark there.
Many games have. Or are you going to go off on a spiel about how inferior GW2 is?
@ThiBash; Exactly. Makes me wish there was a part involving the forest that you couldn’t just run through.
Unfounded? Do you even play WvW?
Uh, I had a completely different experience when I did it yesterday, or the day before.
The mission was very easy and I cleared it in no time. I didn’t notice any issue with the NPC’s sucking or enemies respawning too fast. I was moving forward pretty steadily so I didn’t even know the enemies respawned.
Because the game can totally handle it.
Yep. The Ghosts are just trapped, and while they’re there they’re kicking Charr kitten Admittedly they’re not the Charr who deserve it, but I’m unsympathetic to the entire race given their history and attitude. More over what they’ve done to Ascalon since then is filled it with pollution and just crap, ruining my screenshots.
Incidentally the Ascalon Fractal is my least favourite.
There really is nothing else to do with badges after you get the Gift.
AC
TA
HoTW
CoF
SE
CoE
CM
RCoA
Based on all paths, I still think CM is the hardest dungeon barring Arah. Just so many rifles.
I’m not selective at all in group composition so I’ve seen Thieves in FoTM and from personal experience as a Guardian, they require the most babysitting out of all the classes. Also to be honest I find the group stealths to be annoying most of the time, especially when they break autoattack while I’m face tanking Mossman. But that’s more a case of confusing player behaviours. (Like Necros who Fear right after Binding Blade)
Still, I don’t mind. The only thing that really annoys me is seeing someone play rifle Warrior.
You just need to find some chill people to do Exp with. I, and I think many people now, don’t really care for AC as long as you’re over 35.
People think the new AC is harder?
I played it yesterday for the first time since the update, and also in months, and I found it shockingly easier with a pug group where not everyone was 80. In fact I’ve done it 11 more times since then and none of those groups have been full 80’s and I haven’t had a single moment where I’ve even considered it difficult, let alone MORE difficult.
I suppose it’s appropriate they made it easier given that its the lowest level dungeon.
I don’t understand why people get so worked up about this,the lfg site is perfectly functional,so I don’t see why the devs should devote resources to making something that can already be gotten…..
And besides,if they do make one and it’s not as good as the lfg site,then it will actually hurt the dungeon finding as people will just be usin that one.
I genuinely don’t understand why you don’t understand.
Well yeah, then give everything to everybody for free. I don’t have enough time to work an a second exotic set too, so I’m bound to using the condition spec I’m running now. Boohoo. And WoW is worse in almost every way you can possibly imagine, I played that long enough.
I love how you totally just ignored his point. He even responded with “I want challenge” and, typical ANet apologist reply you say he’s expecting things to come freely. Lol.
Calendar gating is not a measure of player skill or developer creativity. I don’t even know what it is besides maybe someone one day deciding arbitrarily that they want to annoy everyone every day.
I agree about the dolphin one.
They reduce you to ridiculously low stats (and give you vulnerability to boot) so you die in two hits, but somehow that does armor damage?
It probably wouldn’t be so bad if the hitboxes for Dolphin’s weren’t so much larger than their model. Too much getting stuck in places you should fit.
I didn’t like it to be honest. Some of the stuff struck me as interesting, but for the most part my impression of the event was monotony and tedium.
Using the environment to whittle away against his armor was conceptually intriguing, but the open-world (and therefore very slow, scripted) nature pretty much drained any sense of urgency to leading the Ancient into the mountain.
Mostly though it was the terrible, terrible health pools that the enemy karka had. I mean Champions, you fight so many of them… And here’s the kicker. Not only does it take longer to drain a Champions health bar than the Ancient Karka’s… IT HAS TWO!
Repeating that over and over was simply taxing. It became a game of attrition and quickly lost my interest.
Seems legit to me, if they had intended it to be once per account they would have made the chest lootable only once per account (like dailys, DR in dungeons, DR in events etc)
“If they had intended me not to rob this place they would have put a better lock on the door.”
or in Guild Wars 2:
“If they had intended me not to buy thousands of 42 Karma weapons they would have put a higher price tag on them”
It was probably an oversight on the developers part.
Exploiting such an oversight would be called… well… exploiting.We need to wait for an official statement though.
It’s a pretty huge oversight considering they must’ve known overflows would be in use for the event. And for all events until they upgrade their sever systems.
I never started.
ANET doesn’t have to do these onetime events … they don’t even have to give us brand new content every month … they are trying to make the game interesting and and make the world feel live. Is it fair that not everyone in the world can make these events? No, but life isn’t fair. It’s just a game. Please stop complaining and just grow up. No I can not make EVERY event. I have a job, wife, and 2 year old daughter. If I miss an event so what. Asking ANET to stop all onetime events cause you can’t make it is completely selfish. Yes, SOME people got precursors from the event then again SOME people got precursors the first time the dropped a few exotics into the mystic forge, it happens.
It’s completely selfish to have ONE timed events in NA prime time and not in another time as well. Ultimately ANet will lose big on this – so does it matter, no, lets move on.
9 AM – 12 PM is NA Primetime?
Better then 3 AM, no?
The fact that it’s better than another time doesn’t make it primetime.
ANET doesn’t have to do these onetime events … they don’t even have to give us brand new content every month … they are trying to make the game interesting and and make the world feel live. Is it fair that not everyone in the world can make these events? No, but life isn’t fair. It’s just a game. Please stop complaining and just grow up. No I can not make EVERY event. I have a job, wife, and 2 year old daughter. If I miss an event so what. Asking ANET to stop all onetime events cause you can’t make it is completely selfish. Yes, SOME people got precursors from the event then again SOME people got precursors the first time the dropped a few exotics into the mystic forge, it happens.
It’s completely selfish to have ONE timed events in NA prime time and not in another time as well. Ultimately ANet will lose big on this – so does it matter, no, lets move on.
9 AM – 12 PM is NA Primetime?
To me, whether it is an exploit depends entirely on how lax the standards were for being able to open the chest (i.e. how much of the event did you have to do to get it). If you could jump in at the end and still get the reward? Exploit. If you had to participate in a large chunk of the event to get credit? Totally legitimate.
Everyone was doing the entire event before switching, if they had another character to switch to, solely for fear of not getting back in the overflow.
don’t seem fair to me when someone has to exploit the overflow server.
Doesn’t seem fair to me that the players had to resort to doing so because ANet scheduled the event as it was, and more over it performed as it did.
You think it’s unfair, I think it shows off the spirit of the community that people would ferry dozens of others into an overflow for no other reason but to be altruistic. People helping people overcome the events short comings.
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I’m willing to bet that OP is just too stubborn to change his build.
I just wanted to give my thanks to everyone in this thread that helped people get the event done. E-hugs and props to all of you.
It’s story mode, what did you expect?
But they need to introduce Fractal rewards in other dungeons.
Also for those people complaining about missing the event, don’t you have the same chance of getting a precursor by farming mobs in the World? Its not like you missed anything exclusive that you cant get in game. Don’t worry there will be some new fun stuff to get next month! Be Patient! ^.^
No. It’s evident that the loot table for that chest was much narrower in its possibilities. The chances for exotics and especially precursors was significantly higher.
i have a part open for the purpose of getting people into an overflow with the event running ….. if anyone is interested
I’m interested. How can I go about getting an invite?
Completely floored when I saw the JP. I spent a good 30 minutes before I got the hang of it, and nothing was more satisfying than being able to do the whole first section in one go. Absolutely brilliant work.
As for the smaller island at the end. I totally wouldn’t have noticed it if there weren’t some good people standing there seemingly just to direct people over.
Yeah. There are too many technical issues that even if someone books a day off, they might not be able to complete any content.
They’re not vague at all, but they are bugged. If you’re prone to frustration I’d just wait, but I can’t guarantee they’ll be there tomorrow.
I haven’t finished them myself (due to bugs blocking progression), so I don’t know if there are any rewards beyond story and lore.
At most you’ll need to look up where places are on the map, but the names of places are given to you.
The giant guy. He’s cool, the dungeon mechanic is fun.
And the crazed asura one. And two dungeon mechanics that make me nostalgic for older games. (Dodging Old Toms projectiles and stacking charges for the Crazed Asura)