More RNG nonsense with incredibly low drop rates. Stuff like this turns item acquisition into the lotto. You don’t run TA in hopes of acquiring the weapons for yourself, you run it in hopes of winning the lotto. Everyone else has to grind out tonnes of gold so the lotto winners can cash their ticket in. I’m so sick of this kind of RNG.
I do! I really want that staff, even if it is worth 220g, I just dont pve enough to earn that kinda gold
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Completed the path eight times now and haven’t received any exotics at all, let alone the new skins (and going on the price in the trading post these are EXTREMELY rare, the staff is over 220g right now…)
Maybe its just that my account only has 87% magic find.. Idk. I did a run with an omnomberry bar and the birthday booster (over 200% MF) and didn’t see any noticeable improvement in drops other than one uniD dye /shrug
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
They don’t, free trial weekend and they don’t
A) disable mail on new accounts to stop them receiving the money or siege plans to grief with.
B) just flat out disable wvw access for free accounts.
It doesnt take much foresight to see this kinda thing happen but they are too focused on pulling new people in and not taking care of the ones they already have -_-
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
No it’s not. It still has single, very limited source. Laurels income is not multiplied by number of alts. Neither is liquid WEXP. We still have single pool of resources to spend across all characters. Guess what – as long as there are useful masteries to have, all of this pool will be spent on main.
Did you even continue to read the rest of my post? Go back and check it and you will see I am not arguing against your point…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The addition of the bonus WXP for laurels/badges is simply intended to give WvW players an additional option they can spend their laurels/badges on, it is not intended to fix any issues with alts and WxP.
We’re aware of, and actively discussing the amount of progression we’ve added through WxP and the difficulty for playing multiple characters as a result. When we make changes to help address alts/WxP rank, we’ll make sure to specifically call out the change is to help address that issue.
It would have solved the issue. Had you not made it a requirement to use laurels too… It’s just getting a little hard to keep track of all the carrots and their sticks right now, so it would have been nice for you to keep this simple.
Wxp only has an effect on the user, there is no monitory gain to be had by using all your badges on wxp, so doing this would have no risk. Sure it might make content more easily attainable for people who only main one character, but at least it wouldn’t punish those who use alts.
The current system makes alts very hard to maintain as too much emphasis is placed on timegated currencies, all the while allowing those who only man one character to go nuts after all their ascended items have been purchased…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
It was implemented to help alts. Ends up just making it easier for people who don’t have alts to increase wvwxp…
8 alts = 40 ascended accessories, and a hell of a lot of laurels. Mr 1characteronly only has to get 5 and has plenty of laurels left over to spend on even more wxp…
Blind really…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
It’s shocking how much reliance there is on laurels for this game with only one way of acquiring them
When will badges be the primary focus of a purchase (like the old days) instead of a pointless side cost…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I’m not sure if it was a ‘waste of time’. I didn’t pay attention to what rewards were actually given as a result of completing this path because I found it fun and challenging. The dungeon does a good job (IMO) of slowly introducing you to mechanics you need to kill the final boss.
The dungeon was long I will agree with that, but without accurately knowing the rewards amount off the top of my head I can’t comment on whether or not it is worth repeating often. At the very least, completing it once was worth it. I think things will go much more smoothly when I get together with guilders instead of pugging it.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
I think when sparky lights the oil slicks it makes lots of toxic fumes. Don’t quote me on that but the first few attempts we didn’t mop up enough oil with the ooze and found no matter where we stood in the room (not in oil) we would be getting at least 10 stacks of the fumes dot causing a wipe.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
What would I honestly stand to gain by lying to you… It’s completely doable, just kite thg ooze through the oil slicks. Nobody said you had to stand in melee and eat his powerful attacks…
FYI my group killed sparky first. We felt it was easier to control the oil when they were not getting lit on fire by sparky.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Teutos is right, it is fairly straight forward so long as everyone realises as soon as they have ooze agro that they are in cleanup duty. My pug party wiped about 3 times before we got it right but that’s how it should be with randoms and no voice comms.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Anet will never implement something that will deter players from grouping up.
If you have some anti Zerg debuff mechanic players will qq when a loan pug comes along and tips the number of players over the threshold making everyone angry at him/her.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
The build on October 1st is going to add WXP consumables to player kills, which should make a pretty sizable dent in this. It is the case that making the events themselves reward WXP is problematic at best because of how easily they cycle. All that said, we’ll make more adjustments as needed to make this a better place to play WvW. A bonus for kills in the area isn’t a bad idea at all.
How about the liquid Wxp for badges you said was coming, is the also in this patch?
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Don’t base anything off of wvw ranks. All they measure is how much you Zerg or pvdoor. People forgo enough benifits (ascended drops, loot, xp karma etc..) by bring helpful and upgrading/resetting and building siege/running yaks etc… Why punish them even more…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
When was the last time Anet implemented anything the forums actually asked for… Culling?
My recomendation would be to give up. They don’t care, after all we (thepeople of the forms) are the minority and the majority of the gw2 is apparently happy with the party/squad/commander system… #devlogic
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
It’s far too easy to flip them just to farm WXP. One thing that is coming soon is an addition of WXP consumables to the player loot bags, which should make a pretty big addition to the amount of WXP you get from being in the area, assuming you are killing players. As to adding it to the general capping of the points, we’ll have to consider that pretty carefully before we make any changes.
OK, well I wasn’t saying I was going to make one haha, I am interested in getting together with a group of like minded players however rather than pugging with randoms who don’t want to work as a team.
Anyone feel confident enough to lead us to slaughter this beast?
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Frequency needs to be increased. Its not an easy fight and not having many opportunities makes it very hard to complete or even practice unless you can sit in sparkfly of him for hours at a time.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
It seems like this event is going to be far too difficult for the average group of players to complete without a large voice comms community. And because of how infrequently you get a chance to do it failure sucks even more.
So I ask is anyone making a guild specifically for completing this beating this event? Arranging groups specifically designed for each aspect of this fight (turret defense, finger destruction etc).
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Its not like he is asking for th end of skill lag or new maps..
What’s so hard about putting an item that is already in the game (liquid Wxp) at a vendor for pure badges. Would give us a use for them…
Also has anyone noticed a lot of valid topics being mysteriously deleted recently? I keep going to reply and get a message saying the perma link doesn’t exist anymore lol.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Guys we are the minority, didn’t you know everyone who plays the game and doesn’t comment on the forums agrees with the devs and loved the idea of bloodlust and league systems
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
We beat him, it takes coordination and good commanders. How we did it was, we broke up into 5 man organized teams for each turret and the rest follow 2 commanders on 2 different pathways, one left, one right and split the turrets to defend either left or right zerg. This is very doable and I’m hearing the whiners already. They clearly need to learn strategy, which is fantastic. Love this new revamp!!!!
Did your guild livestream/record/anything? As the majority of the servers claim 80-90% health at the end I want to see proof this happened.
If you did it as some superguild event I am sure someone recorded it…
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
Can’t you just leave it open? Some of us paid gems for an item that’s going to become completely unusable when you take SAB away…
Don’t throw it away once its over I’m hoping we can use it again once world three and four opens up
I’m sure it will but that’s not the point. I didn’t pay gems for a part time item there should have been a disclaimer saying this item will not be usable when the SAB gets removed.
In reference to ascended items:
Nar: I love that it will take me time and money to
reach the same level I’m at right now… …said no one, ever.
