I find it funny that you make this post when you don’t actually understand the mechanics yourself… Maybe head over to the LS forum and read about the actual mechanics instead of calling people trolls… You are failing the event BECAUSE you are using single target condition damage and there isn’t enough dps… It never used to fail before you trolls started telling people to stop doing dmg…
I see a lot of comments about hype and hyperbole, but I have yet to see a single word released by ArenaNet about anything being announced.
What exactly have they hyped about Pax South? The only thing I’ve seen is an announcement about the Tournament at Pax East. I’d be very interested in reading all this ‘hype’! Please post the links.
People are saying that the session at PAX will be purely hype and no actual details, all flash, no substance. They are not saying they are hyping pax.
GW2 need a good expansion or two because EQ NEXT is coming, its like free copy of GW2 with world destructions and almost same classes…..just wait and see.
I would be very surprised if everquest next was released in 2015.
That’s where I’ll be going when it is released, 2015 or otherwise.
EQ Next was a bait and switch to sell landmark. I highly doubt they will ever release Next… the last update I read said they were still figuring out if the systems were possible… i.e. they haven’t even started building the game yet. Though I still get 3 emails a day telling me how great landmark is and that I should buy it to support the development of next… yeah… right…
On topic… I’ll believe it when I see it… 2 and a half years of next to no content doesn’t leave me very optimistic… they dismantled their dungeon team, merged the servers, flopped in china, and have only released 1/2 of a map in 2.5 years. I’m sure they will use a lot of hype words, and very vague statements and then tell us something big is coming that they will “talk about when it’s ready”. 6 months later they will announce that this “big secret project” no longer aligns with their development goals and was scraped.
Wow…. They are people with lives, families, friends, etc. Let them have a vacation.
Close this stupid thread, PLEASE.
They are almost certainly not on vacation… Anyone who isn’t in high school or college has been working all week and is still working until 5:00 tonight.
People still need to buy food and pay rent in December, so they still have to work. They don’t magically get 3 weeks off just cause.
3000 would only be enough to 3 of the pieces. You are still short at least another 1000.
That’s 3000 straight up crests and 3000 (assuming 25 for each) from the mordem bags, for a total of 6000.
With spleens being 50, hearts being 100 and bladders being 35, I suspect I will end up with at least 6500 crests when all said and done, which is hopefully enough to buy what I need.
If you log in within 2 weeks of patch day you get them for free, otherwise you have to buy them for gems.
You can convert gold to gems if you have lots of gold to spare, otherwise you will need to purchase them with real money.
So to answer your question, no there is no other way to activate them, you need to pay.
Well most MMO’s keep getting content and even release full expansions during the holiday season, so they are probably playing those MMO’s.
I’m up to 120 bags, 50 keys, and 3000 crests. I’m hoping that I won’t have to grind at all when the next patch hits. Worst case scenario is that I have 25*120 = 3000 bandit crests and I can buy pretty much anything I need when the patch hits.
No raids is one of the main reasons i play GW2.
http://surlygamer.net/2012/06/05/raiding-sucks-why-guild-wars-2-doesnt-need-this-endgame/
Raids are already confirmed to be coming, so might want to look for a new game if that is the case.
What we needed was raids 6 months ago, not a year from now. There won’t be enough players in the game a year from now to actually play raids.
The fact that nobody has outright said how many chapters is weird. It looks like there are going to be 8 episodes in season 2, which means that they already know. But if that’s the case why not say so officially to let their player base know? This seems unnecessarily secretive unless they have been arguing on whether to split part 8 in two. From memory they told us when there would be four episodes to conclude season 1, and even said there would be an epilogue.
Because if they announced that they were taking a 6 week break, doing 1 episode and then taking a 12 week break most people would have quit the game.
If they don’t tell us then we stay and play with hopeless optimism.
More likely is that they originally planned for an 8 episode season but fell behind on their schedule and have since extended it to more episodes to fit everything in and give them more time to finish it.
I dunno I didn’t finish my dailies and when I logged back in I was dead…
On a more serious note I wouldn’t recommend skipping them, they give out much better rewards now than before. A few months of skipping dailies and you may find yourself significantly poorer than everyone else and unable to compete in the market.
For example, logging in and completing my daily earned me 2g today in 12 minutes. 6 months of that and I could buy most precursors.
Of the ~3.5 million people with accounts 90% of them no longer play the game. So pretty much anyone who is actually still logging into the game is in that top 10% since it only takes a few weeks to get there.
If there is no expansion announced in early 2015 I probably won’t continue playing. LS was a nice distraction, but the endless cliffhangers, the slow release on content, the terrible pacing, and the lack of anything meaningful for 2.5 years has wore me down. I may come back if Anet ever gets their act together, but I’m fairly certain they’ve re-tasked the majority of their devs to work on another game at this point.
The issue in GW2 is that gear and build have no effect on role. I can do the exact same blind field as a thief if I am wearing zerker gear with a full dps build or clerics gear with a full tank build. My support is exactly the same except one build does 10x the damage as the other build.
I can stack might as a warrior just as well in apothecary gear as I can in zerker gear.
My attacks have the same effects if I am naked with a sword or if I am in full ascended zerker gear.
The only difference between any two builds is the amount of damage you are doing. You can choose to either do no damage or do tons of damage, those are your only real choices. Taking some different utilities for support has almost no effect on your dps.
I really wonder if all those people shouting about the “extreme lack of content” have ever actually played another MMO before.
Yep i’ve played EvE.. (now launching 4 expansions a year)… WoW… (introduce 15 new zones, 30 new dungeons, 5 raids, new class, new race, new skills every year), played LOTRO (4 expansions, dozens of new zones, new classes, new skills, new raids, new dungeons, new mechanics, mounted combat), played GW2 (1.5 zones added in 2 years…)
I have to wonder if you’ve ever played another MMO…
So basically… stand at 1200 range and nuke the kitten out of him.
You also get a laurel for completing the wintersday dailies, but I fear that might be a bug.
While “Nothing But Broken Toys” (survive 50 waves of toy assaults) counts toward the festival meta, I don’t think “Toypocalypse Survivor” (30 total rounds) does. Is that correct?
No. Infinite achievements haven’t counted towards the meta in the past.
correct. Wasted my time doing the 30 rounds achievement, got no credit towards the meta.
So you just have to do 50 waves for the meta, pretty easy even with fighting the noobs and the bugs.
No different than any other content… Look at lindarii… super hard because of all the bugs, once they fixed them the next year it was laughably easy. Consider the bugs as a “hard mode”
Pretty much this. For some reason the white knights think you HAVE to implement two terrible things for one good thing. If you complain about the terrible things they all shout as loud as they can that there is this good thing. But in reality there doesn’t have to be the bad thing, there can just be the good thing, but for some reason Anet doesn’t do it like that.
Dailies didnt start until a few months after launch actually…
Might want to check your sources there. Dailies have been present since the prelaunch event 3 days before offical launch.
You can see the history of dailies here:
Wow people are really defending this change… I didn’t realize the game had sunk so low that something like this is actually defensible….
“Obviously if people don’t see things from my perspective they are out of touch.”
Pretty much yep. This change is objectively worse than before, opinions don’t really factor into it.
Note: I am not commenting at all on the revamped rewards, just the revamped dailies.
I don’t think I ever asked to be forced to join the Jungle worm guild or be forced to PvP…
Those are your current options if you want to complete the daily for today.
There is no “Jungle Wurm guild”. I think you are thinking of Triple Trouble.
Also, no one is forcing you to do dailies. They are there to incentivize you to do things you wouldn’t normally do. If you don’t want to do new things, then don’t worry about dailies.
You’re right I don’t have to play the game, no one is forcing me to. I guess i’ll go play something else instead until this is changed back.
Wow people are really defending this change… I didn’t realize the game had sunk so low that something like this is actually defensible….
Same could be said about those against the change.
Yeah… Just no…
Wow people are really defending this change… I didn’t realize the game had sunk so low that something like this is actually defensible….
• Plus a daily but rare chance at something from the TP
I suspect the actual purpose of this “revamp” was to remove this to force more people into the gem store.
I have gotten a constant supply of BL items by faithfully doing my daily. I have not had to buy any of those items from the gem store… we shall see if that changes or not… but I suspect it was the driving motivation behind this change.
I must be reading the wrong patch notes – can someone link?
Or can the OP be explained?From what I’ve read it sounds like they’re attempting to implement what “we” have been asking for..?
I don’t think I ever asked to be forced to join the Jungle worm guild or be forced to PvP…
Those are your current options if you want to complete the daily for today.
I don’t understand… the 1st revamp of the daily had too few choices, so the 2nd revamp of the daily added more choices, now the 3rd revamp of the daily removed those choices…
First off… Why do you keep wasting development time revamping the daily? this is literally the 4th iteration of it.
Secondly… why are we reverting to having no choices? that was what you tried to solve with the last revamp…
Do you need karma or do you need obby shards? If you just need shards then get in a shovel farm train in SW. I have gotten 3 stacks of obby shards since SW was introduced.
Even though the average price of legendaries has undeniably risen since launch, lets have a look at the ability farm all mats for your legendary yourself, now and then:
- Precursor forge rate has seen buffed once since release and they introduced multiple other ways of obtaining a precursor, including a higher droprate from rank, world boss, dungeon and fractal chests
- Rare weapons (main ingredient for forging) drop rate has been increased from guaranteed chests from world bosses, guild missions, fractal, dungeon and wvw chests and account bound magic find
- Exotic weapons (main ingredient for forging) are available mostly under crafting value due to the introduction of named exotics from champ bags and less demand due to ascended weapons. Their droprate also increased for the same reasons as rare weapons
- t5/t6 fine and rare mats also got multiple new ways of farming implemented, most notably champ bags
- Obsidian Shards are/were available from 6 more currency vendors now compared to release when they were only available from balthazar temple. In early days, we were only able to get them from 1 other container, lost orrion jewelry boxes (also for karma), now they come from 46 different containers. A forge recipe has also been added.
- Skillpoint acquisition got buffed with the introduction of scrolls of knowledge
- 100g for the icy runestones were a mayor obstacle during the early days. Now its way easier to obtain 100g for them due to better gold rewards, for example for dungeons.
TL/DR: Its is way easier now to farm all materials needed to forge a legendary than it was 2 years ago, due to plenty of new ways to acquire those mats.
Pretty much this… though to be fair, T6 are harder to get now than before even with champ bags and the high SW drop rate…
Bones, Venom, Dust, were all at vendor price for a while. (man I wish I bought more of them back then…)
Everything else is easier to get now then it was before though.
(Hint, you can get 15 rares an hour if you hop around SW)
I hang out around red for a good chunk of time, and i’ve been in SW pretty much non stop for the last 2 weeks but I have not even once heard this legendary called out. (seen the other 3 called out 4-5 times each)
I think it is safe to say he is bugged.
I think there is probably a VERY large use for ascended mats coming up in the next feature patch. They have upped the drop rate of ascended mats by nearly 1000%. Getting emp frags and dragonite used to require hard work, doing specific activities for long periods of times. Now I get 3 stacks a day of each just from playing the game normally.
In a perfect world the achievements would only be doable solo and mesmer ports would be disabled in JP’s. But that is unlikely to ever happen because most of the money for GW2 comes from very very very casual players who would rather buy everything than work for it.
I would say the most likely option for the chest piece will be the mordem heart. It is a very rare drop and is shared between all 4 breach monsters so you would only need one.
So, where in Rata Sum is this point of contention?
I have some spare balm, might go in there and chuck a few around just to let people kill them. (No, I have no expectations that I’ll get something rare, so they’re of more value to me as a toy.)
Not sure what you mean by nothing of value… a single Maize Baulm costs 6s and gives you 46 silver. Every one you toss gives you 40s profit. I don’t know about you but ~20g/hr seems like value to me…
People simply refuse to teleport regardless of the situation and why would they bother? It’s far easier and cheaper to simply AFK as they’ll get the rewards regardless and probably also get revived.
During Halloween for example, some people that died to the candy corn elemental would not waypoint even though it was about 10 seconds away. I’ve even seen people ask to not be revived during the encounter simply because they’ll just die again.
The labyrinth in Silverwastes should have had forced waypointing as a trial, like that one thread discussed a while back. Dead people in there are simply griefing chests.
For the breaches, if people were teleported out, they would actually be revived because the NPCs will stay out there and revive people. Even if people were teleported though and assuming that dead bodies are counted, the scaling wouldn’t downscale immediately. The bigger problem could be – how long does it take for scaling to take effect and do people that tag and run cause it to upscale for that duration? If someone has ~10 bored friends, try playing with an event that spawns adds. The level of the adds will vary as they spawn depending on the scale. Or… ArenaNet… just say it.
Wow you guys are real kittens… glad the people I play with aren’t like you guys…
What if I told you that the ArenaNet dev also thinks you should waypoint? Because during their Tequatl stream, they made that comment.
Teq is a 15 minute fight with massive amounts of AOE where every second counts.
90% of the people who die at the breach do so because of the instant death bug when jumping into the breach. There is no AOE, and it is only a 5 minute fight (takes 2 minutes to run back, only 30 seconds at teq).
I run back at Teq all the time, I will never run back at the breach.
Seems like a good summary, thanks for putting it together. Hopefully Anet looks over this and considers all the weak points so they can improve their story telling in the future. Honestly this seems like a rough draft that got pushed out early without anyone reviewing it and pointing out the flaws.
Wow you guys are real kittens… glad the people I play with aren’t like you guys…
The first few hours there are plenty of “bugs” that allow you to get these things with ease and make a ton of money in the process. You just need to log on in the first few hours and fully utilize these “bugs” before they are removed. That is pretty much how all the super rich people became super rich in the first place.
I’d like if the aura/special effects were a toggle you could use on your guy at any time once you have the legendary unlocked.
I love the juggernaut effect but…it’s a hammer.
That’s actually a pretty good idea. I might go for some extra legendary’s if they did that.
I don’t know of a single heart in the game where the only way to complete it is to kill ambient creatures. Every heart has 3-4 different options, so I highly doubt that maize balm farmers are even capable of stopping someone from progressing.
As for the killing other peoples conversion that is just griefing, they were created by the person with the potion, for the person with the potion. This is no different than kill stealing in other games, which is almost always a reportable offense.
Or you could just rez them like you are supposed to…
THis is a bannable offense, report them and they will be banned. They banned a number of people during Halloween for this.
Or you know instead of whining about it you can just move to a different instance of the city… Also not sure what this would solve… or why it is even a problem.
Is there a reason you can not group up and get your weapon achievements at the same time as the farmers? Wouldn’t it go faster for both of you… AND earn you money if you grouped up with them instead of whining on the forums about them?
It doesn’t matter to the average player WHY the things they want are so expensive. The point is the ‘good stuff’ in the game is FAR out of reach of the average player. Anything constructive to say to the OP at all? Are you concerned at the price of stuff?
The good stuff being what? Even the average player should have zero issue outfitting themselves in full exotic … is that not considered ‘good’ enough for you? Full exotic armor is 1-2% lower stats than Ascended. Are you seriously suggesting that if a player can’t get BiS gear, it’s not good? That sounds a little stupid if you ask me, considering all permanent content in this game was crushed in the gear you aren’t classifying as ‘good’.
Not sure where you are getting your numbers. A full ascended zerker gear player does 20% more damage than the exact same zerker gear player in all exotics. The math was extensively discussed when ascended was first released.
You do not NEED ascended gear to complete any of the content in the game, however the difference IS significant.
Unfortunately it is just RNG. I got the troll and thrasher bladders in 2 days with about 15 attempts. The teragriffs took 45 attempts.
The most likely solution is that they can’t develop the content fast enough so they are telling the story through teaser images and we will not actually get to play any of it. Rytlock will just show back up one episode looking like that and our character will magically know everything that happened to him.
Well i’m up to 10 of each bag, and 20 nightmare keys. Looks like we have a lot longer to collect than I thought.I guess i’ll go for 30 of each bag before the update and 50 keys, that should insure I get about 90% of what I need. If they throw a curve-ball and it needs something completely different, then oh well, I will have enough crests to buy everything off the vendor and get ~50 rares.
Gaile, the difference is that I know how many episodes are in each season of Game of Thrones ahead of time and we don’t have months in between the episodes. As a fan of the show, what would your thoughts be if they decided to delay the finale a month so HBO could ruin a miniseries for a month. You can’t do anything about the latter, but can you at least answer the first question? I feel like asking this is reasonable and I’m getting really irritated that it is being treated otherwise.
Then consider the Song of Ice and Fire books on which the TV series is based instead. I’ve been reading them since 1996, and each novel has taken longer than the previous one to be released. As frustrating as this is, I also recognize that without George R.R. Martin’s attention to detail and perfectionistic tendencies there would probably never have been a TV series to begin with. I’m willling to wait as long as it takes to get the best result possible.
And when he dies of old age with the series unfinished?
Also he just doesn’t work on the books very often, he releases a TON of other material, and makes appearances all the time…. I guess he is a very good representation of Anet actually… always selling things people didn’t ask for… makes lots of hype all the time… never delivers the actual content… lol
What is this the 4th revamp of dailies?
If they spent half the time fixing the rest of the game as they do revamping dailies the game could probably be bug free by now…