You only need ascended stuff for the highest fractals. If you had done some proper forum research, you would have read how to get AR in a smart way starting with exotics, going over to ascended weapons and finally to ascended armor. Armor and weapons drop from daily fractal boxes too so it’s easy peasy to acquire that stuff. You also have to keep in mind that you gain very much gold from the daily chests in the range 1-20 and 21-50.
In my opinion he is not because you can’t see his animations properly not even with lower graphic settings. Let him do more damage np for me as I have never had any problems with him in the past, but at least give players an excellent vision on him maybe with an enlightened map or anything else, so that everybody can dodge while one or two of the random players aren’t able to use group supporting spells. And remove the stupid “no dodge” instability. It is pure bs.
Yeah, you said it: “my guild”. You can also pug this but you need to have all players paying more attention than in every other fractal around this level, except for 74, maybe.
In your team composition everything is set up for a clean and easy fight, but you don’t have this in pugs everytime and therefore I can understand every single person to have their loot in the easiest way possible.
They should not just fix the exploit, they should also redesign Mossman.
I open groups and tell everyone if it’s okay for them not to exploit mossmann – and still get kicked very often.
Most players that stack on the tree are just too bad to dodge his attacks, the amount of bearbows, eartheles and minionmasters who like to sit there is proving my point
We already had this argument a lot now and it is hard countered by the fact that you can’t even see the animations of Mr. Moss while having adjusted lower graphic setups. Too much fire work everywhere.
Ok, there is one possibility: 5 man ranging like they do on lvl 2 fractals. Sry Sir, not my playstyle.
So either you “exploit” on the tree or you have a guard or mesmer with you that know how to play the class but that, my dear, is even rare than lvl 2 players meleeing.
It’s wouldn’t become worse. A subsection in the LFG would help raid groups to find and to look for the right people and others that are looking for open world things do not have to scroll through 50% of raid requests. That’s all.
Well it didn’t work for WoW, EverQuest, Age of Conan or any other MMO I have played with raiding content.
But then again, GW2 is quite different in this regard as you say. I am a bit biased when it comes to pug lfg insta joins as well.
I still feel it’s a bad idea though. Raids should be made through guilds, not lfr. But that’s my opinion.
You didn’t get it, did ya? Learn to read and have a look at the lfg.
There, you will see uncountable raid requests every day, well at least 50% of all listed things in the open world tab are referring to raids. It would have 0 influence on the things you mentioned if there is a subsection for “raids”.
You will see the same requests, offers and so on like now with the difference that open world players and raiders aren’t annoyed by thousands of entries that are listed at the moment.
Your whole argumentation is bullkitten btw.
It’s wouldn’t become worse. A subsection in the LFG would help raid groups to find and to look for the right people and others that are looking for open world things do not have to scroll through 50% of raid requests. That’s all.
The boxes and their content are fine due to a high gold reward. The drop chance of fractal weapons out of encryption is pretty low and that is totally ok.
If you are looking for the completion of the collection, you are better with buying the skins. They are very cheap a.k.a. 20 Pristine Fractal Relics.
Go read the wiki and your mind will be enlightened!
All content becomes old with age, standing on a rock and spamming keys like a monkey with rolling pins attached to your hands does not fix that.
I just want my gold and so does almost everybody. Give me new content a.k.a. new fractals and make them waterproofed or at least fix exploits asap. It’s not hard to read in the forums for an employee and give advice to the developers. But they culpably disregarded that since years.
People aren’t too lazy to mentor. I used teach fractals before HoT, and as hard as i tried to have patience, there are allways people like from one yt video:
Me: Get out of the fire, get out of the fire get out of the fire,get out out of the fire, get out of the fire, get out od the fire, you died.
Person: ohhhh was i supposed to get out of the fire? I tought i was supposed to get IN the fire. I’ll sure remember this for the next time.
3min later
Me: get out of the fire get out of the fire get out of the fire get out of the fire…you died.
So i quit mentoring a while ago for the sake of my sanity. I do not whish explain anything to anyone again. Go to internet. Google. Practice with noob pugs and see if that’s fun to wipe over and over again because people are dense. I practiced with pugs and learned.
Yeah, I learned that too. Nowadays it is so horrible, you can start an lfg with “READ: Level 80 ONLY” and there are always 1-4 players joining the group below 80. I haven’t had a full lvl 80 group since weeks in my first lfg attempts.
But well, I see you are pretty new to the forums. I recommend reading in this subsection and scroll + read the pages and maybe you will understand what we are talking about.
Again I have to correct you: “Dungeons do not have no attention of developers now”, they are completely out of focus forever. They will never work on them for a another time. Also the old dungeon developers aren’t employed at Anet any longer and if you examine the latest bugfixes, which are eons ago, even you will understand and realize that the know-how of the old dungeons has gone and probably almost nobody in the company has the programming knowledge to change things there. An easy revitalisation by increasing the gold could help (a bit due to many players are still bored by dungeons) but that’s not the thing the company wants to go for, keyword: inflation.
It makes sense to add them to low level fractals.
1) Gives a reason to play low level fractals at all
2) Rewards new / casual players who need the gold the most. Transfers down gold from the rich to the poor players.
Both points are stupid, you know that.
First, the drop rate is that low it doesn’t make sense trying to farm low level fractals for the item and second, casual gamers don’t win here. Also, I have never seen an lfg for “amber dipole farming”.
This statement is a joke and a slap in the face of every usual GW2 player. So many things since HoT are behind grinding collections and most of the fun and spirit of the old game has gone.
To be clear, GW2 was made against grinding, now it has turned to be a grind fest.
Players with no life, 30 k AP and 101 titles shouldn’t be the main target by Anet, that’s all.
Except you’re not going to have all the chat codes ready in my specific order. Which I give you on the spot. You have to break your stack and ping it – quickly.
If you have 20 – sure you could have all chat codes – but you’re not going to be able to manage them quickly enough to ping it on time. It will take you longer to copy the chat code from where you saved it than it would to generate it by making the stacks.
Even so – ping raid Mini, Ping raid ascended drop, show Eternal all work.
You can’t stop people from excluding – best to find your own groups.
but it is clearly an exploit which everybody agreed when installing the game that anet can ban you for it…
The Wintersday jumping puzzle exploiters also were just playing how they want, so is it ok to exploit the wintersday jumping puzzle then?
I doubt that this “exploit” is in the same range like a bot which was used in the jumping puzzle. Also, Anet has ignored many known “exploits” in this game and never banned anyone for using them, for example oneshotting Lupi.
This mossman issue is a minor thing and you can bypass it by joining/forming appropriate groups like several ppl already mentioned in this thread.
Should they fix it? Yes. Is it really relevant? No. The content is faceroll as hell no matter fighting in the open or standing on the pole. Stop complaining about it.
And then I wondered if Anet could scale dungeons (just the story mode) so that it could be done single-player.
I never thought about it in a profit kind of way, but I think it would give a new solo experience, especially to newer players who haven’t built up a friends list, or to those who enjoy playing Guild Wars solo.
Afaik you already could have soloed every story mode before the expansion came out (after the change for Arah story). So nowadays, with specialisation it’s even easier to solo them. You don’t need others to finish and I disagree that you won’t find players for story modes, you just have to wait a little bit longer.
Could you please link to an official statement from ANET that specifically states that Raids are not meant to be pugged.
If you can’t, please kitten and keep your personal opinion to your self.
He is right:
Colin Johanson emphasized that this was intended to be coordinated endgame content, not something a PUG can tackle:
“[For raids,] we focused on players working together on really challenging content. I believe that is part of community building. We cater to a ton to different playstyles. We have content that you don’t have to group for and some that you can do in ad hoc groups.”
Another one:
“Can you PUG these?
Mike Z: if you are really really good PUG group. Maybe? Maybe for the first 1-2 bosses. We want these to be a true challenge.”
Just do a full run starting with story and 1 to 3 afterwards. It’s fast, still good money + mats and your guild members will have their achievement when it’s done. Worked for everybody who had this bug in the past.
If it is the first time you run through that cave, run alone. All of your group should do that. Keep your trace on the left side of the path, give yourself a swiftness boost or stack swiftness and start running. Never stop and use condition remove spells until you reach the rocks before the final curve. You should immediately climb up an jump through the gap I already mentioned.
Try some youtube videos and you will see that it’s not really hard.
Arenanet abandoned dungeons so you will never see a fix here. 100% sure! And I must say it was never buggy for me to use the golem and the rifles, the mechanic is just stupid and running way faster.
I cannot see how people do higher level Snowblind that first boss fight is a pain, ive been in so many wiped parties at that part, and now that the boss resets I haven’t seen it beaten yet.
It’s only tricky at level 74 but the lack of agony damage on this boss is giving you the opportunity to take any char you have with defensive gear without any infusions and you can almost facetank it, depending on the class. We ran it with 2 guards, I wore Soldier’s gear and we had no problems at all.
While you are seeing 42 and endboss 48 as super difficult you may have reached your personal skill level.
Can’t skip it when I need it.. And I need the bloody tokens to get the gifts and the armor skins..
You should skip through the cave not the dungeon path itself.
If you aren’t able to run without stealth, you’ll have to take a thief, engi or mesmer with you. But it’s also easy peasy without these classes.
A little hint: Don’t use the main exit of the cave, there is a gap to the left above some rocks you want to jump on and get through.
Take your time to explore – Arah is fun.
Just don’t do it, it is against the rules.
Open your own lfg with “40 – no skip exploit” and you won’t have any problems with exploiting players any longer.
Most GW 2 players can’t even handle or don’t want to use the TP correctly a.k.a. they are selling their stuff asap for a lower gold value so I highly doubt that DPS meters will change anything at all.
The raid is pretty much non-casual af and almost no one that hasn’t been successful yet is trying it nowadays. As a result DPS meters would only be used by ambitious raid players and yeah, they don’t need them due to knowing what is possible & good and what not.
For the rest of the PvE game a DPS meter is useless.
Joe Gamer wants to have fun in this game, I never heard him saying: “kitten , I need to see my actual damage done but if I see it, I would be willing to improve myself.”
That will never ever gonna happen!
Dude, stop trying to look intelligent with your college knowledge of science. You have a lot of well educated players here in this special forum and your subliminal tries to shine are ridiculous. Grow up!
Let’s do the math.
You buy 30 keys(6 gold) and another 30 keys(9 gold) a day. That’s an obvious gold sink. A gold sink of 15 gold
You buy 70 boxes(I say 70 because opening 60 boxes will probably give you 10 extra keys anyway) at 20s each. Even though you “lose” 14 gold, that 14 gold remains in the circulation(buying from players isn’t a gold sink, it’s a gold transfer. The gold doesn’t get deleted)
So up to now you’re down 15+14=29 gold.
Now, we will open 60 boxes, get ~10 extra keys, open the remaining 10 boxes aswell. So, we can say we opened 70 boxes.
Average per box is ~47 silver. That being around 44 silver direct gold(selling stuff to NPC) and 3 extra silver from agony resistances/t5 materials/mew mew/whatevers.
So. You made a total of 47s*70=32.9 gold. 32,9 gold, where, after my close-enough numbers, we would have: 2,1 indirect gold from things you sell on the TP, and 30g 80s from vendor trash. That’s liquid gold. Now mate, let’s retrace our steps:
-Sync 15 gold by buying keys
-Circulate 14 gold by buying boxes
-Circulate 2.1 gold by selling mats/mewmews/agony craps
-CREATE 30 gold 80s by selling vendor trash
Even though our personal gold balance barely increased(3g 90s profit), we actually added 15 gold 80 silver to the economy. Even if my numbers are way off(lets say a delta error of 0.15% at most) that 0.15% out of the 15 gold 80s is still, in other words, a buttload of daily direct gold from fractals
Have you even read my post and understood what I was referring to?
10 – 25 direct liquid gold without any gold sink while playing the daily game (9 fractals). None of these coins are influenced by any other economy stuff.
I repeat myself, at first I don’t care what comes after. I am producing 10 – 25 gold out of nothing, just in running 9 fractals per day.
And again, if I don’t buy stuff from the tradepost, I am still in the direct liquid gold range and producing gold that has never existed before. Of course I subtract vendor prizes but as long as I don’t buy encryptions from the TP, my profit is always direct liquid gold.
So, playing fractals can be compared to starting a dungeon tour and stopping after you got the 10 – 15 direct liquid gold reward from the dungeons.
The purchase of further keys via stabilizing matrices and encryptions from the TP comes after my daily 10 – 25 gold. And with buying from the TP, yes I don’t disagree, you can make some additional money.
Did you also add the 10-20 liquid gold from buying the 60 daily keys(and buying the boxes on TP ofc)? Cuz I did
Nope, you are getting enough boxes and keys (via daily chests and stabilizing matrices that drop during the runs) solely out of the 9 daily fractals. Depending on (double) RNG and getting rings which are salvaged and then again the stabilizing matrices turned into more keys you achieve the difference of 10 to 25 direct gold. Till this moment you have neither bought anything from the TP nor sold stuff on the TP, it’s just the pure junk you are selling to the vendor. And selling to the vendor is always self-made direct liquid gold out of nothing.
If you buy additional daily keys (20 s + relics) from the vendor (not TP!) while having boxes you still stay in direct liquid gold range, so in my case (at the moment I have enough boxes on the bank due to running all 100 fractals) I can increase this direct liquid gold reward even more. But that is not the usual state of a daily fractal runner.
After all these calculations you are able to start to buy stabilizing matrices and boxes via TP but here you are leaving the area of direct liquid gold due to taxes and the fact that others were collecting the stuff for you but yeah, you are making more money yourself and this can go up to over 30 gold per day.
“We dont have a control group data set of the same people from before the HoT expansion to compare it to.”
Yes, we have! There is data of KING before HoT and even data from other guilds (SC & LOD). You just have to open your eyes.
Funny thing is, they did these records independently from each other and their data don’t differ very much. The 12% pre-HoT are pretty much solid.
Afaik, KING players are updating their recent runs constantly and we will see how the numbers will change or not. Personally, I doubt that they will change that much and I am convinced your worries, theories and unfounded claims will stay kittening kitten!
There are to many ghost storys about abnormally high droprates to just be ghost story’s
The main thing is: stories
People exaggerating, people are lying, people are not realizing stuff (choose one for the user Rentapest.6503 in this thread).
In the end, it is just fricking rng, compare it to a usual lotto game where you don’t want to accept that some guys are winning the pot two times while you will never ever get a decent amount of cash.
Get over it or uninstall. There are no luck accounts.
Don’t use “Speed run – zerk only – meta classes – ping asc underwater breather – food & sigill of undead slaying” in the LFG and instead just: “All welcome”
You won’t be disappointed, sir. It only extends your overall runtime and you have to solo GL (Lupi) some seconds after phase shifting. Easy peasy…
8 Keys, not counting keys dropping out of encryptions, not counting stabilizing matrices you can convert into keys nor counting useless ring you want to salvage also giving stabiliziing matrices. And as you can read above: Buy the first 30 keys daily for free.
Seriously, almost all posters before already mentioned you were exaggerating and I have to agree with them. Fractals are very good money nowadays.
There’s still a lot of other ways to get gold, but not directly, which is good.
Doing fractals ~anywhere from 15 to 30g an hour depending on group, fractal farmed(usually 40) and luck
There’s a lot of ways to get gold, yet none of them involve getting DIRECT gold ~ you get stuff that you transform into gold.
That’s wrong for fractals. Doing all dailies will give around DIRECT LIQUID 10-25 gold. Rares/exotics and some blue/green stuff are additional to that and non-direct gold.
