1. Sigil of Malice and Sigil of Bursting have the same effect (+6% condition duration)
2. Superior Sigil of Malice and Sigil of Bursting only have +6% condition duration, while the Major versions have +5%, making the superior version almost completely worthless
3. Fractal relics are placed into the wallet, no way to withdraw them. Can not use them in MF to complete recipes.
The new sigils of malice and bursting both offer the same +6% condition duration.
The major rune also provides +5%, making the superior really not worth it over the major.
Are these things intended or is there some bug?
Well it took me 19 tries, but I got it done. It helps to be in a party so you can target her so you aren’t always hitting clones.
Classes with more dodges will have an advantage, but I did it with my necro anyway.
condition damage is also useful since you can keep doing damage even while you are running away.
CoF1 accounts for like ALL of the gold creation in this game. No amount of changed rewards will be an increase over CoF1.
There are 40 members in my guild who earn 70g a day from CoF1.
Where is the 16 million number coming from?
Personally I vote about 200 times, but I know people who voted <10 as well.
I think it was like a 5% reduction… unfortunately the less informed player base took this as a “feature” and now we are stuck with Kiel and boring asura…
Well according to the devs this temp content is part of a portfolio that will return every year. Apparently after this event all future events will leave permanent things in the game world.
Hey folks,
I wanted to take a moment and address this, it’s a totally fair question and something as a player (removing my GD hat) I’d wonder the same thing as well. As I covered in my blog post last month, a major focus of our living world releases in the second half of the year will be on focusing our living world releases on content that has a larger sense of persistence, and more permanent effect on the world.
You’ll start seeing this strategy come into effect with the release 2 weeks from now, and grow as the year continues. The story of these living releases will occur long enough for it to play out reasonably and then update as the story moves forward, while the content and playable experiences (except specific story beats) will persist forever as a result of that story occurring.
We still want to have some content that can happen each year, our holiday festivals, Super Adventure Box, Zephyr Sanctum, and the new Queens Gauntlet are all intended to be content that will regularly return. The goal of having these in our portfolio of event content that can occur again each year is they allow us the opportunity to easily build on something we’ve already completed as themes for some of our releases for year 2.
We wanted to get to the end of the first year of Gw2 with a decent amount of these events that can happen each year in our pocket, to allow our second year a lot more opportunities to lean on these while we focus on much larger projects we’ve been working on in the background. You will not see another new recurring style event in 2014 once our core portfolio of returning events have been completed with the Queens Gauntlet. You’ll already see the benefits of this as the return of Halloween, SAB, and Wintersday has given some of our teams time to focus on other bigger projects during that time.
As to the point of this specific release, there are a ton of permanent features and content. From the update of mini-games becoming permanent on a rotation, champion loot, solo queue PvP and leaderboards, dungeon reward changes, currency wallet, PvP leaver penalties (dishonorable), the FX culling system and more! However, we do recognize one of the components is returning content rather than constant, we need one more core event in our portfolio to fill out our ability to pull off the ambitious plans we have for next year. We too want to have an even larger playable content impact as stated in our goals for the second half of 2014, you’ll be see seeing that play out shortly.
Soon, you won’t need to ask “is this permanent or temporary?”, you’ll simply be able to look at story specific parts and know the story goes away when it’s done, and the playable core content remains and changes based on the outcomes of the story. As a player, I’d rather login and experience an event knowing the outcome and the results of the story will create content I can see and experience for years, than have it all go away 2 weeks later, and have no impact.
We’re also looking into options that would allow players to experience the story sequences that will go away as the story moves forward for those who missed them, but this is still a ways off as we look at various options.
As a reminder, this is where we’re headed and the goals we’ve given to our teams to accomplish, it just takes a few months until we fully get our projects on this track: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/
Well I feel much better reading this, however I AM still concerned about the queens gauntlet having so many gates involved. Since this is a temporary game I would much rather it have more easy access. This is from the perspective of someone who will have no trouble getting it done anyway. It has never taken me more than 3 days to finish all the LS achievements, but I do know players who can’t play as often as me and this seems to shaft them rather hard, especially if they can only play during prime time.
So live stream just finished but I am a bit unsure if I understood this completely.
As far as I can tell its supposed to be non instaced so players can watch others do well or even hilariously fail and fall to their deaths.
AS MUCH AS I AM GOING TO ENJOY THAT!
Won’t this have an incredibly long queue? Having tons of people trying to do one match?
They claim it’s not an issue.
But it’s obviously an issue. We will see tomorrow. Of course if you can’t get in on patch day you’ll have plenty of time to complete it lat…. oh wait never mind it’s temporary, sorry.
That doesnt prove anything…. They could just NOT remove this content… And it would be permanent
So, lets say a giant monster comes and destroy the whole area where the new stuff are, how could they not remove it?
They spent 4 months developing an area and mini-game to have it be destroyed and never seen again?
I’d say they are stupid and should find a new team of developers.
Or they could just move it to an instanced area by talking to an NPC.
It takes no effort at all to NOT remove something. They just don’t care.
Well if these are the same testers who in beta said that explorable modes were so hard that they never managed to beat them then I am not too worried…
I am worried about the queuing, ticket gating and temporary nature of the content though.
According to the devs you will need to wait 25 minutes in order to get a chance at a 2 minute fight.
Good luck.
Could you please list your source? Being a person who has been highly involved in that content, I’ve never experienced, seen, or heard of a 25 minute wait time from any of our testing.
According to your fellow developer:
Actually it’s two minutes. And the map capacity of Crown Pavilion is limited to 75 before it starts to create overflows.
75 people, 6 people at a time, 2 minute matches = 75/6 *2 = 25 minutes
Obviously some people will finish their matches faster, but even if they finish in 1 minute that is still a 12 minute wait, and I doubt everyone will finish that fast.
You can see how many people are waiting on the NPC who you’ll need to talk to in order to get into the arena. Most fights will not actually take two minutes. The arena will admit the next person whenever someone wins or loses as well. Also there’s a lot of other stuff going on in the map. You guys should check it out before you jump to too many conclusions.
Having to wait any time at all is the problem. There was no reason additional people past the first 6 couldn’t be put into instances and allowed to participate.
Based on the difficulty and the number of achievements, it seems we will need dozens of matches to complete all the achievements. Even at a 5 minute wait this means hours and hours of queue times overall that are unnecessary.
Again if this event was permanent then it wouldn’t be a problem, but we are forced to do it all in 4 weeks if we want to do it at all, so time is an issue.
But But Guys… don’t you know what the players want? How could anyone NOT want 4 weeks of a temporary event with a 25 minute wait for 2 minutes of content?
Welcome to Temporary-mini-game-wars-2
They have given up any premise of providing new open world permanent content in favor of an endless stream of temporary mini-games that take people out of the world.
They don’t even bother with originality, they just steal the ideas directly from popular books/movies like the hunger games and now catching fire.
According to the devs you will need to wait 25 minutes in order to get a chance at a 2 minute fight.
Good luck.
Actually it’s two minutes. And the map capacity of Crown Pavilion is limited to 75 before it starts to create overflows.
2 minutes to defeat all 5 competitors in the tier or two minutes per competitor?
We’ll go with the former just for sake of argument.
that’s 6 people rotating out every 2 minutes. With a cap of 75 that means 12.5 groups of people rotating through every map, or a 25 minute wait to participate in this event.
There is absolutely no reason I should need to wait 25 minutes to participate in 2 minutes of content. It is completely unacceptable and if it goes live like this I will not be participating.
This may be the worst decision ever implemented into this game.
I don’t even mind time gating… but extreme time gated content, combined with a queue, combined with the fact that it is temporary is just out right absurd…
I’m not strictly against this being temporary, but combined with the fact that only 6 people can play at once, and the fact that I can only log on during prime time means I will probably NEVER get past the queue for this content. That to me is unacceptable.
So do you know Dulfy, if the Queen’s Gauntlet (and Crown Pavilion) is permanent? Are we going to be able to keep trying to get the achievements after the two weeks/month?
It’s temporary, it only stays for 4 weeks.
Do you know that for sure?
I haven’t seen anything yet from Anet thats said its temporary (or permanent, for that matter).http://www.guildwars2hub.com/features/editorials/first-impressions-queens-jubilee
Temporary content that only allows a limited number of players to participate at one time? Gee that seems like a solid design choice…
Do the devs think at all before they do things like this?
I think that they’ve been slowly rebuilding it for months and now the construction is complete. Doesn’t make much sense to have a quarter of your city in shambles and not to fix it. I’m looking forward to the repairs.
The only disappointing thing is that it isn’t the cantha district.
Since only 6 players can do this mini-game at once, it is possible you will never even get to play it even if you try all month. Seems like a solid design choice…
I love the sound of the 1v1 arena. Sounds like it might be actual challenging content.
I can’t wait to give it a go on my thief and my necro. I just wish it was staying around, sounds like a good candidate for a permanent addition to get people into other cities for a change.
Hmm odd… i’m going on vacation for 10 out of the 14 days this is available and I have already completed every achievement. Maybe the problem isn’t the content or the length of time…
You can duel in custom arenas now. There is no need to duel in PvE because dueling is a PvP activity.
That is the solution. There are no other solutions planned.
Once I figured out the correct method I managed to get this achievement done fairly painlessly and had fun while doing it.
The key is to get at least 30 points during the grace period. You have to play very aggressively. Stay near the starting camp and get lots of arrows. Rations aren’t important, you will die before the grace period ends and be granted a free ration and arrow when you respawn. If you can get the pistol or the sword at the start do so. If you have the sword don’t attack a single person 3 times, but instead attack 3 different people once. As long as you do damage to them you will get 1 point for the hit and 5 points for the kill when they eventually die. The pistol is basically 2 headshots that you can use while moving, so use it for 2 free kills right off the bat before people have endurance.
Next head to the main camp and get at least 4 arrows. Climb up the tower and target people as they come by. Again don’t waste time or arrows trying to kill people, the idea is to weaken as many different players as possible. hitting 4 different players will net you a total of 24 points eventually.
If you die during the grace period and end up back at the main camp you are good, just keep doing what you were doing. If you get sent to a far camp just gather as many resources as possible and stay near another person.
Now for the important part. once the grace period ends, you need to be the first person to DIE. DO NOT KILL ANYONE. Dying first allows you to obtain all the blue ghost balls that spawn from every person who scavenges during the first 3 minutes of the game. If you are at the main camp this is usually 20-30 balls, and usually 10-20 balls at the outlying camps. Each one gives you 1 point, so you will end up with a score from 60-70.
After this you have two different strategies. The goal is to end the game as quickly as possible while still maintaining a steady stream of points. Every trap you set off is worth 2 points, and every kill is worth 5. if you have a game with a lot of hiders who stocked up rations and are in a bush then you want to max out your balls to 15, find them and spawn a kakra on their head. Wait until they start running. They will almost always do a dodge right off the bat. Once the kakra is fully out of the ground drop a KD trap slightly ahead of them. If it spawns on them it will not go off, it needs to be ahead of them, and it takes 0.5 seconds to cast so plan accordingly. Make sure to place it so they can’t miss it. This will give you a 99% chance of the kakra killing them and them triggering the trap for a instant 7 points.
If you find someone running around instead of hiding then you will want to switch to alarm traps instead. These can only be triggered while running so if someone is just hiding don’t bother since it won’t trigger. If you see a runner you follow the same method as the KD trap. It will apply 2 stacks of torment to them. If they are smart they will stop moving, wait for it to drop off, heal and then start up again. Once they start up again hit them with another. If they don’t stop moving you can stack them, and hold enough motes for 3 traps total, giving you 6 pts, and them almost certain death for another 5 points. These are much cheaper than the kakra+KD combo so you will get more points doing this initially, but if it means the match will draw out longer, then it might be better to go for the above combo to finish off hiders.
I found this method to be much more fun then trying to survive to the end. You get to do a lot more killing, rack up more points (I usually got highest points every round, even though I was one of the first to die), and get to annoy more people from the grave.
They have stated (repeatedly) that from now on the living story updates are going to leave a lot more permanent content.
Weekly mini-game rotation, 3 new fractals, the election. They heard us and are already adjusting accordingly.
Granted, I’d still love an expansion; but they do seem to be listening and leaving more permanent things in the world from now on.
Just so people are aware since this has come up as a complaint multiple times…
Since the introduction of AOE looting you can bind AOE loot to a separate key so you don’t revive/talk when attempting to loot.
Personal opinion is personal opinion.
You are unlikely to enjoy every living story patch. Everyone has different tastes. What you think as downhill I see as uphill.
I have very much been enjoying the minigames and the activities sending us out into the world to do stuff.
It takes like 2 days, max to gear up a character in exotics at 80. It will be 5-6 months before ascended armor is introduced… Seems kind of silly to me to not gear your characters based on something that is going to happen 6 months from now.
Crap wasn’t fast enough to beat out all the trolls. Something important to keep in mind while reading these forums. There is no sub, so people that left the game months ago and no longer play can still post and try to ruin the game for other people. I would suggest talking to players in game and avoiding the forums.
What server are you on? What times of day do you generally play?
A living story event just launched, many players are participating in that right now as well.
Jade Quarry and Tarnished Coast seem to be the most PvE active servers in the US. You can guest to those servers if you want to see more players. In particular, Queensdale (the human starting zone) and the surrounding zones are usually very crowded.
Welcome to the game!
I think it depends on the stealth skill. I don’t think mesmer’s stealth is OP, and I don’t think thieves SR is OP. SR also has a counter, AOE the circle, they can’t move out of it for 4 seconds or they lose stealth.
The other stealth skills are what is problematic. And they are very annoying.
The blatant and clear bias against condition damage specs in this game is what annoys me the most. I just want a viable and competitive PvE condition build.
I’m tired of characters stealing all the credit for my hundreds of hours of work. Evon has never done that so I’d probably vote for him. He is also an actual pirate who likes treasure, which seems important for a pirate election.
Yeah the buttons are pretty useless. They should give a buff upon use. extra xp or karma. I have 2 stacks of the things already.
Why would I want to vote for the good canidate? this isn’t real life. I want the game to be interesting and exciting, not good and boring.
Also the only thing that really matters is that Evon’s fractal is 100x better from what we know. If Anet wanted to make it an even fight there wouldn’t be 5 dev posts supporting Evon and 0 supporting Kiel. They would have revealed some juicy secret about the reactor that made us interested. They would of put the minigames and trail portals near each other instead of putting Evon’s in plain view close to the WP and hiding Kiel’s back in a corner. They wouldn’t have sent us 20+ “support reminders” with 2s a token and a giant VOTE FOR EVON slapped on them. And they wouldn’t have made a pirate election where one of the candidates isn’t a pirate and doesn’t like treasure…
imo there should be at least 1 scrap in every box. that means you would need a maximum of 10 boxes, or 900 gems to get a skin. This is still way more than enough, but removes the terribad RNG ccomponent and encourages more people to buy keys since they know they will eventually get what they want.
I can’t really see why they wouldn’t do this. It still lets them make money from gambling, trying to get a ticket, but you make even more money from people who just outright buy 10 keys because they know they will get something in return.
Of course this all becomes 5x worse next week anyway, then it is just absurd.
Hey the Karka and Torment traps are fine, however when it comes to things that has this much power (instagib) fair warning has to be made. For karka for instance maybe a ground shake to alert of its coming, that way even a karka+trap could be survivable (a good player would assume a trap as well and try to avoid)
The ground does shake… and there is a loud kakra spawning noise… and there is a 4 second warm-up animation before the attack
Kakra alone is pathetic.
Kakra + KD trap = insta death
Torment = unseeable and undodgable, only defense is to not move ever.
This thread is a fine example of how people all heard that wind was OP so they completely ignored sun and lightning. Then people heard that sun could get you across the whole map instantly so they all switched to sun.
If you took some time to explore all 3 aspects and learned their strengths and weaknesses then you wouldn’t need to be here complaining.
The only thing that is currently a problem is the wind exploit to reset the invuln timer.
Call from beyond is the easiest trap of all to avoid… you literally have to do nothing to avoid it.
As long as the crystal breaker doesn’t use wind mode you can kill them.
But if they do then gg, you will never kill them.
And then of course there are the carriers who when they are about to die they jump off so you can’t get the credit. Very frustrating.
The “funny” thing is that is the “discount” price.
It goes up to $180 next week.
Don’t vote for corrupt people? Now this reminds me of a popular but tricky question…
__________It is time to elect a new world leader and your vote counts. Here are
the facts about the three leading candidates:Candidate A:
Associates with crooked politicians and consults with astrologists. He’s had two mistresses.
He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.Candidate B:
He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used
opium in college and drinks a quart of whisky every evening.Candidate C:
He is a decorated war hero. He’s a vegetarian, doesn’t
smoke, drinks wine occasionally and hasn’t had any extramarital affairs. Had a pet dog and was also a talented artist in his youth.Which of these candidates would be your choice? Decide first, then see the spoiler for the answer.
Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt
Candidate B is Winston Churchill
Candidate C is Adolf Hitler
A vote for kiel is a vote for hitler! you heard it here first!
You only have to sneeze on a champ to get gold contribution so you could be naked with no traits and wielding a plank and still get the same reward as everyone else.
Gold really isn’t that hard to get. I don’t farm, i don’t play the TP or anything. I just mess around and sell stuff i find. I’ve got 60g that’s just sitting there.
…60g is ~nothing.
Maybe not in terms of overall player wealth, but 60g is very well off in terms of in-game costs…
60g will get you:
3 sets of top tier weapons and armor.
half a set of the most expensive armor in the game
enough money to level 2 characters all the way to 80.
Enough money to buy one of the best looking weapon skins of your choice.
Sure it is not a ton if you are going for a legendary, but 60g is enough to buy everything you need to play the game how you want for months on end without any financial problems.
Plus once you have everything you want in the game you can slowly save up money. I earn like 5g/day just goofing off. But since I don’t need to buy anything at this point I’ve got almost 100g in the bank just by doing pretty much nothing.
Where is the best place to farm events for the two candidates?
I’m assuming Queensdale for Kiel.
Anyone know a good chain event for Evon?
Unless I’m mistaken there is lore in at least one other fractal already. The Charr fractal which is somewhere (pre?)-searing..
All the fractals are lore based. They are all based on a major event in Tyrian history, or a mythical retelling of said event.
I’m sure the people in the lore forum could tell you more.
Yeah it is completely unbalanced compared to the other one.
But the reasoning is pretty obvious. People will grind the achievement anyway because they want the points. This is Evon’s game and Anet wants Evon to win. Many more people will play the survival game, thus giving evon a ton more points and helping him win.
Think about it…
Evon gives a better fractal
Evons minigame and trial are closer to the WP and in plain view
Kiel’s minigame and trial are stuffed in a corner
Evon gives the player free money and tokens on a regular basis, kiel does not
Evon is an actual pirate in the pirate election, Kiel is a goody goody soldier
It’s pretty obvious who they want to win here.
1.) No one is forcing you to buy these skins. If you want to blow 50-200g on these skins (which aren’t even worth the money), then it’s your fault if you lose out. Don’t complain when the house wins.
2.) The current system is better than before. At least this time your failures still contribute to a reward in the end
3.) Guaranteed drop rates aren’t good. I bet a good majority of people like having rare skins that you don’t see other people wear. If they allowed guaranteed rates, these skins would be just another flavor of the month.
How is this system in any way shape or form better than dragon coffers or fortune scraps?
The only advantage is that you can directly buy these off the TP instead of buying the coffers. However the prices for these are set strictly by the trials drop rate, not the BLK’s otherwise they’d be an order of magnitude higher in cost.
Doesn’t change anything for me. I’m not going to gamble for a chance at a skin unless I can do it without the gemstore.