Guild Wars 2

He is the first of the Firstborn. His character fits this perfectly.

And killing corrupted champions has been done to absolute death (thanks, Blizzard). So please no…

Kodiak.3281:

Scoobaniec.9561:

I want to kill Caithe

I want to kill all of the Sylvari.

Nah. They cannot be turned by other dragons, so they should be used to fight the others.

Scoobaniec.9561:

I want to kill Caithe

She at least needs to be held accountable for everything that has happened. Forcing us to divert from the Pact fight AND not telling Trahearne or us about the true nature of the Sylvari before the fight. She is responsible for everything.

Geomancer for Elementalists, perhaps. Learned from the Maguuma centaurs.

dirtynwah.3851:

Maybe you are joining on a wrong person. Those groups fill quickly and you are joining a player that was trying to get on a good map just like you. Is there even a way to tell who is hosting the LFG?

This.

Also, many Americans cannot do percentages.

Damask would be valuable no matter what, because the economist failed to balance cloth properly.

I suppose if you were pro you could use it to blast distant fields, but meh. Sounds more trouble than it is worth.

No idea why they did such a huge health difference, but it has consistently messed up the profession balance in the Living Story. Hopefully they address it in the expansion.

Also, Anet, next time make sure your transform cannot teleport and get stuck in the walls, roof and objects, and Caithe does while stealthed.

In short: make the weapons, buy the jewelry, then stop.

You also have a lot of ectos.

They should remove it for the damask precursor, seeing as clothies get screwed with the increased cost.

Weird bug. Or maybe intended?

Druid certainly is. Will the others reflect some aspect of Maguuma?

Arcanist who uses pistols GO!

I know you are thinking it, due to the impossibility of one specialisation being enough for how varied Elementalists are. But do something like Arcane specialist, or Magma (fire and earth combined). Please, no healer.

Use the 7% crit sigil.

Season 1 – Failure, due to poor implementation and very poor Scarlett background/introduction, etc

Season 2 – Success. They learnt from their mistakes. They need to add a skip button to cutscenes and dialogue, though…

Do it with a buddy. You get killed by the vines at the start, and have your buddy detonate all the shrubs and defeat the dragon. Rock Dodger and Shrubplosives done. The Anet way.

Specialist does not mean better. It means you specialise in a few areas instead of being spread across everything. I see nothing wrong with having the choice between base and specialist. For now, at least.

However, I DO see a problem with only having one specialisation for professions like he Elementalist. Choosing a single element, or even two, would be harsh. Perhaps an Arcane specialisation would work?

A warrior transformed into Caithe will have ~7000 more health and ~300 more toughness than an equally geared elementalist. This is ridiculous, and very poorly designed. All professions should have had the SAME base stats as Caithe, which were then modified by gear. Using the base stats of each profession for a transform where your skills are not used was just…really dumb.

Astral Projections.7320:

dietzero.3514:

Astral Projections.7320:

NeedsFoodBadly.2671:

Astral Projections.7320:

John Smith
“You shouldn’t be able to place buy orders below vendor price, that is the bug. We’re aware of it and will have a fix soon.”

And they did. Those orders still there are old ones from before they stopped people from placing buy orders below vendor price.

Okay…so if that’s fixed then the problem is that Anet is leaving 2+ year old buy orders on the market. I’m pretty sure this has been suggested before but couldn’t they just remove them?

It wouldn’t be too crazy for orders to have an expiration date either.

As to removing them, I gather it’s too much trouble and they aren’t hurting anything.

John Smith: Source
Prioritizing a bug fix that doesn’t actually affect the TP usage at all over any fix in the game that does affect players would be irresponsible.

What a ridiculous post. You insult the OP and everyone who dislikes and is actually impacted by this bug, and then you give an assinine definition of priority. Were you trolling?

Yeah, they should remove them. And Wanze, they are buy orders. There is no stock involved here, just meaningless buy orders that pump up gw2spidy, etc.

/shrug

I was quoting John Smith and what he said on the subject (see the linked thread). If you don’t like the answer, take it up with him.

Yeah, I realised later, hence my above edit. I cannot really comment without getting infracted, but john does not ever take human interaction into account.

My apologies for blaming you for john’s mistake.

Astral Projections.7320:

NeedsFoodBadly.2671:

Astral Projections.7320:

John Smith
“You shouldn’t be able to place buy orders below vendor price, that is the bug. We’re aware of it and will have a fix soon.”

And they did. Those orders still there are old ones from before they stopped people from placing buy orders below vendor price.

Okay…so if that’s fixed then the problem is that Anet is leaving 2+ year old buy orders on the market. I’m pretty sure this has been suggested before but couldn’t they just remove them?

It wouldn’t be too crazy for orders to have an expiration date either.

As to removing them, I gather it’s too much trouble and they aren’t hurting anything.

John Smith: Source
Prioritizing a bug fix that doesn’t actually affect the TP usage at all over any fix in the game that does affect players would be irresponsible.

What a ridiculous post. You insult the OP and everyone who dislikes and is actually impacted by this bug, and then you give an assinine definition of priority. Were you trolling?

EDIT – OMG you were directly quoting john smith…I should have known. When it comes to removing the human element, he is the king…

Yeah, they should remove them. And Wanze, they are buy orders. There is no stock involved here, just meaningless buy orders that pump up gw2spidy, etc.

‘Complete a level 55 zone for your first level trait’.

Nice work, Anet…

Damask prices are the same as when I stopped playing the game so many months ago. They were ridiculous and extra punishing to cloth users then, and they are the same now.

And the price spiking to 18 gold, and then falling due to Anet trying to kill their own game with their NPE, is not a valid change.

Also, saying ‘around 20 gold, falling to 13.5 gold’ is completely disingenuous. An inflated fake number followed by a real number to make his point stronger? That is just weak.

Then according to your definition, Damask is right now almost 15 gold, when it was around 13 gold last September. OMG IT HAS GONE UP!!!111

I think comparing numbers is not for you.

Almost 18 gold is not ‘almost 20’…

Zaxares.5419:

dietzero.3514:

Zaxares.5419:

On the other hand, consider that all that farming is ALSO boosting supply of basic, fine and rare mats, which helps make it cheaper for players to obtain the rare skins and items they want. (In fact, the decline of Silk prices in recent months is almost directly tied to Silverwastes throwing out blue/green items like confetti. Remember all those players complaining about how expensive Damask was? Well, ANet DID listen. This is their solution!) This might even be an intentional move by ANet, considering that HoT will introduce Precursor scavenger hunts, and thus a lot more demand for T6 mats for Legendaries.

Damask prices have not changed, because ALL cloth is still ridiculous to get. Anet have not listened at all.

Also, you can get ascended chests anywhere an ascended crafting mat can drop.

That’s untrue. Looking at the price for Damask, it’s actually fallen from almost 20g per bolt back in late September to its current price of 13.5g. This is matched by a similar fall in Silk prices over the same time period from 16 silver to 6 silver, which again is most likely from the oodles and oodles of blue/green drops we get in Silverwastes.

Prices for other cloth types have remained more or less the same, because the amount of lesser cloth we get through the Bandit chests is insufficient to keep up with demand. More than likely, the occasional price spikes we got is due to Silk falling to a low enough threshold that more players decided to try and go for Ascended armor.

It was never even close to 20 gold, and the price only spiked because people stopped making it. Now the price is back to what it was in early September, and what it had been for months. And unless something is done about ALL cloth prices, it will stay at its ridiculous price. The small amount of extra low level cloth being added will evaporate soon.

Zaxares.5419:

On the other hand, consider that all that farming is ALSO boosting supply of basic, fine and rare mats, which helps make it cheaper for players to obtain the rare skins and items they want. (In fact, the decline of Silk prices in recent months is almost directly tied to Silverwastes throwing out blue/green items like confetti. Remember all those players complaining about how expensive Damask was? Well, ANet DID listen. This is their solution!) This might even be an intentional move by ANet, considering that HoT will introduce Precursor scavenger hunts, and thus a lot more demand for T6 mats for Legendaries.

Damask prices have not changed, because ALL cloth is still ridiculous to get. Anet have not listened at all.

Also, you can get ascended chests anywhere an ascended crafting mat can drop.

Was a bit disconcerting, being called boss constantly. Was expecting The Grand Poobah.

Totally overpriced.

Ayrilana.1396:

Everyone is just as capable of making profit on the TP as those that currently do now.

Was that a joke or do you just not understand how money works?

Fire or acid, right?

essjaybee.1283:

Rauderi.8706:

essjaybee.1283:

It is beyond debate that those who question the price of Precursors deserve naught but the severest Ridicule, as they are Entitled, they despise Hard Work, and they are undoubtedly Communists or Socialists (perhaps Both!). Therefore, it is the duty of the benevolent Rich to expose their Flawed logic. An Unpleasant task, perhaps, but those who have succeeded— through Skill, Cunning, and Superiority of Birth— to amass significant amounts of pixelated Wealth should view the Education of their lesser brethren not as a Burden, but rather as their God-Given Responsibility.

(How’d I do?)

Wow, for a moment, I hated you. Grats.
Reminds me of the faux-conversations I have with my ’bandmate.
/golfclap

;D

Much of this thread reads like a badly-written Gilded Age political tract (complete with Random Capitalizations for Emphasis), so I figured I’d just be a little more explicit about the philosophy on display here.

+1.

You should probably drop the Sigil of Smoldering, seeing as it is only giving you 9% burn duration.

Vayne.8563:

Jade Arkadian.9280:

Im unhappy too with this copy-pasted “new player experience” from the chineses GW2.
I wanted to give it a chance, but after reading more about this and watching some videos, i realised it wasnt worth my time to raise a new char from lvl 1 to 80 with all thoses barriers and levelgated content.

The big picture of this is that you are in a huge tutorial until you hit lvl 80… Hopefully for vets, we still have level tomes…

Moreover, i dont see what was the main goal of this achievement…new players? Why are you making new stuff for new players if you are not expecting incomming newplayers from nowhere?

This has been copyed from the chineses version of GW2…i hope you dont dare to copy that insane and toxic VIP system too..

I really pray for a step backward regarding this, until then, you wont see any new character from my account…

psdt1: People seem very angry with this patch…
psdt2: Please, give us a REAL expansion…

Did it ever occur to you that the update of free beta weekends was particularly poor and they’d like to have more of them but they couldn’t do it without actually making the game more welcoming to new players. They did test this. I’m not convinced they tested it with China.

This game needs new blood, particularly since so much of the old blood seems to be discontented. Anet’s way forward is to leave behind the people that can’t adapt to where the game is going and to get new people who like the game for what it is. And that means keeping people from free demo weekends.

Not throwing a bone to long time players who often complain no matter what you do.

Are you paid to do this? Seriously, are you?

Loose ground? Like gravel and sand?

Just a correction: lose is the word you want, not loose.

eithinan.9841:

dietzero.3514:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

As you can see, it’s a self inflicted problem. Everyone wants the same item (i.e. Dusk), that’s also very limited. Add in the fact that we have a free market where players can determine prices, and you have yourself a rare and expensive commodity. The problem is not Anet’s “lack of Precursors”. It’s the player’s lack of understanding that other Precursors exist, but the hyper focus on two or three force prices up.

The solution is not to increase drop rates just to satisfy these players. The solution is to educate people that there are other options for Legendaries, thus the purpose of this thread.

Stop insulting everyone.

This did not insult me at all. Please stop speaking for “everyone”

Learn what things like hyperbole are.

Nope. Anet has a different definition of ‘feature’ than I.

Smooth Penguin.5294:

As you can see, it’s a self inflicted problem. Everyone wants the same item (i.e. Dusk), that’s also very limited. Add in the fact that we have a free market where players can determine prices, and you have yourself a rare and expensive commodity. The problem is not Anet’s “lack of Precursors”. It’s the player’s lack of understanding that other Precursors exist, but the hyper focus on two or three force prices up.

The solution is not to increase drop rates just to satisfy these players. The solution is to educate people that there are other options for Legendaries, thus the purpose of this thread.

Stop insulting everyone.

I fear it a lot in WvW and when mobs have a 1k+ retaliation.

About time the 20 year old browser was updated.

Wow…you are really obsessed with the word entitlement, penguin. You even capitalise it…

You also seem to think the word has an innate negative meaning, which is false.

Jormag’s corruption. Kill them.

unicorngirl.1487:

dietzero.3514:

Please stop pretending EotM is anything but PvE.

It’s WvW. Please stop misusing a WvW area. Thanks!

I WvW in the actual WvW areas. EotM is for dailies then leaving. It looks pretty, but it is not WvW.

D/D eles are weak in PvE and average in WvW. You need to take that into consideration when you talk about nerfs.

Thehopone was correct. Ashadow was the incorrect one.

You need to review EVERY SINGLE TRAIT IN THE GAME. Sick of useless traits.

Please stop pretending EotM is anything but PvE.

Morsus.5106:

Smooth Penguin.5294:

If you can manage to farm 10 Gold per day, you’ll be able to afford a Precursor in a little over a week.

Only if it’s one of the 90 gold ones.

Please do not feed him.