Guild Wars 2

Ive had a really hard time finding good players via /mapchat or gw2lfg.com for highlvl fractals over the last few days, so yes… Ive also started to use the “experienced players only” option / added it to my lf-ad.
Because apparently, lvl30 fractal isnt enough to make people sit up and think “well, maybe my 0 AR, lvl1 char in blue and green armor isnt good enough”.

It has absolutely nothing to do with being an elitists but with not willing to be wasting hours of my valuable time on people that have absolutely no business even trying lvl10 fractals.

As to CoF and other non-fractal dungeons: if you want to run a certain setup without having to explain things or people stopping to watch movie scenes, shouldnt that be possible just the same as wanting to build a grp with good and bad players alike?

This thread reminds me strongly of those oh so tolerant people forcing you to listen to their music, because if you dont want to listen to it, you are an ignorant, intolerant snob.

Because until last patch I actually enjoyed playing with new people every day

I want to qualify that statement:
extremely difficult to find good or even remotely successfull groups.

I used gw2lfg.com only for finding fractal grps and before last patch, any highlvl fractal grp I found there was at least good enough to finish one fractal.
Since patch I couldnt find a single grp being able to finish one fractal lvl30+.

So I wouldnt really say gw2lfg.com is the answer to everything

And as soon as your body gets ressed, you will be sucked back? Could be kinda funny

I wouldnt call this kind of behaviour “smart”

Did some testing (salvaged 2x 100 rare items) and got about the same amount of ectos from both tries.
But I noticed a kind of “gap” every now and then. And it seems kind of “clustered” together. So 4-7 with nothing, then 5-10 with 1-3 ectos, and so on.

Personally I got the feeling that there is a pattern to it, so I tried my 2nd try with: everytime I salvaged for 0 ectos I salvaged 5 white items and while it did feel “more” to me, in the end it was actually 2 ectos less ;p

A possible solution to voting people out of grp for buddies is to add an internal counter for each completed fractal in this instance and is checked before giving out daily loot or even before spawning Jade Maw’s chest.

Another would be to disable the function after first fractal is finished.

Best solution would be for all of community to not do this because it is incredibly anti-social.

While I did get my one and only exotic from a JP chest without any mf gear, I always get “better” (green+) from dragon chests wearing mf gear.

In fractals on the other hand I always get same, no mf or full mf only matters for killing mobs there.

So my guess would be: dragon chests are bugged. But doesnt really matter. Just use mf food, you dont have to go full mf to get something good.

… with all those ascended rings?

Ive been doing fractals since they were introduced and I remember the happy feeling I got as I finally got my first ascended ring. I was soooo proud. And then, my first infused ascended ring… also quite proud. Not as much as before, but still…

Today, I looked into my vault and… thats what I saw:
http://img.pichoster.eu/ba9ff267gw045.jpg

Together with those rings “in use” on my three 80 characters thats a lot of rings.

On the one hand, thats quite nice because of obvious reasons. On the other hand it also starts to get a bit annoying. The only thing I can really “do” with those rings is sell them to NPC for 4s. And so far that’s not something I want to do because those rings are supposed to be “worth” something, arent they?

What do you think? And what do you do with your ascended rings?

DanH.5879:

please fire your lol tester team, they seem very clueless how to test things properly before releasing “fixes” into production (aka the user community)…
guys you fix 1 thing, but bug out many other things instead….

From experience I can tell you that things like “mob spawn” etc. are often either non-testable at all or they work fine on internal testserver, than it goes live and all hell breaks loose

Btw, had the “no adds spawning during first hammer phase” bug several times now and it could always be solved by either necro soloing seal (takes forever) or mass-suicide down the cliffs.

One small suggestion though: could you change the seal back to taking damage from aoe’s as long as it takes to fix this completely? This way working through two other fractals just to be f…ed over in this one isnt an issue anymore.
Or deactivate this fractal completely. There are enough other ones.

wildcode.5403:

Gilosean, actually I ran the numbers before the loot drop but and higher magic find had a lower drop rate, and could not get a response from ANet about it. The loot bug exposed this even more since you get alot less loot to begin with.

Here is the general run down of what my investigation showed.

1. higher magic find lowered the drop rate by 26%
2. % drops of whites/blues/greens actually lowered
3. % drops of crafting materials and items that result in crafting materials (bags/salvagable) increased.
4. % of junk and yellow items stayed the same.

Conclussion, if you want more coin, dont use MF, if you want more crafting materials, use MF. Especially note that you have a greater chance of getting more yellow items without MF in a set time period than with MF due to the lower drop rate MF causes.

Interesting. Wouldn’t say I get generally more exotics or less exotics with or without MF gear, same with rare items. I definitely get more crafting mats with MF gear, but also more green drops and a lot less white / blue stuff.
Overall amount of drops is roughly the same, could be less with MF gear, but not noticeably so.

Nevertheless, I concur. MF gear really is only interesting if you are trying to get fine crafting materials. If you want to get gossamer scraps and the likes, I honestly wouldnt use MF gear either because of the decreased drop chance of white items.

Honestly, I quite like it how it is atm. It is not totally overpowered and must-have, but it is not totally useless either. Exactly how it should be imo. Interesting enough to try it and have some (food, booster, maybe even runes/sigil of luck), but not interesting enough to max it out (exotic mf armor, mf jewelery) and be totally useless in a group because of the missing stats.

Doesnt have to have been a disconnect at all.

Completion rewards are pretty screwed up at the moment. Sometimes you get them and more often you dont get them. Havent figured out why so far and support just gives random answers a la “check your mailbox and make sure it is empty” (as if that has anything to do with it lol) or “we wont restore lost items” (did you know, you cant loose what you never had -.- )

And theres the matter with Arah event being bugged anyway, maybe that interferred with your reward?

Disconnects, lags, authentication errors when using TP, login failures. I cant even manage to complete daily achievements >_<

Since a few days ago I cant stay logged in longer than approximately 10 minutes. Before that everything worked fine.

Pingplotter says its not my providers problem.

Imo they should spawn more mobs, but normal mobs and not elite. More to kill is always fun and profitable and would be even more a feeling of “having to defend” that little npc-thingy.
Less mobs, but really hard ones makes it more like a boss-encounter instead of defending.

Whatever direction they change it to, it HAS to be changed. If people rather kite than kill something with a timer it shows that there is something severely wrong with it.

Level 71 step “Rescue Apatia”: Traehearn was so shocked that we couldnt rescue Apatia, he went mute.

Sirens, splat sounds, cannon balls… have it all. It is annoying, but a restart of the game usually solves the problem for at least 30 minutes.

Its like those sounds are supposed to be background noices but sound volume is increased by 200% or more and then they get “stuck”.

So let me re-cap:
People exploited a weakness in game mechanic and instead of fixing that exploit they made certain encounters impossible to complete without exploiting. And the argument for this: because it was too easy.
Yeah, well… exploits can do this

Nice going ^^

Tried it with another group, better equipped (all exotics) and a better group setup (2 warriors, 2 guardians, 1 necro ), still the bomb-encounter was more a “wipe and release so npc doesnt die” than really defending him.
It really leaves a bad aftertaste and I wont bother with this dungeon at all anymore until it is properly done.
So far all dungeons were a huge disappointment.

Is it even working as intended now? Because, honestly, there spawn a hell of a lot mobs and with all of them hitting hard, and taking massive damage before dieing, it is kind of impossible to do atm. Especially those archers.