im officially disappointed with the forums. 260 views and cant answer a “yes” or “no” question.
Why would you wait that long to find out? The website says act 4 starts on October 31st. Stands to reason that’s when we’ll be able to “attend the party”.
I find it amazing that people defend the puzzle being a multi-player event. As if this lessens the puzzle if the other players are removed… it sounds very artificial to me.
This is a solo achievement, not a group achievement. It’s not a dungeon requiring multiple players working as a team to complete.
It not a “mostly client side” puzzle either — having multiple players in the event proves that wrong straight up. The server is calculating positions for everyone and distributing to the clients.
Mostly because the puzzle is extremely easy if it not the mess of players at the start. I personally don’t feel it’s hard at all if not for the trial and error.
Actually as long as the bag you’re replacing doesn’t have more than 10 slots full of items you can just drag and drop and the items in the bag will just transfer to it.
If you drag the halloween bag on top of one of the bags you want to exchange it for, the halloween bag will take its place and all of the stuff from the first bag will be in the halloween bag. I did it myself yesterday.
Exactly. The only reason that won’t work is the bag is bigger and has more items in it than the bag you’re trying to replace it with.
I’d like to see the puzzle as a solo, client-side puzzle. That would make it responsive and based upon your own skill level.
Having an achievement for that scenario is perfect.
But you’re not fine with the difficulty because the mess of players thins out quite quickly. It’s part of the challenge to make it past them.
You can’t say you’re fine with the difficulty and then in the next sentence say it should be easier.
My main point is that the puzzle should be completely client side, removing the server position calculations. This naturally requires the puzzle to be a “solo” instance.
That aside, I’m really baffled by your response. Is this a jumping puzzle or not? You feel that having the challenge of other players obstructing your view is ideal? You think removing the other players lessens your accomplishment? Once the horde thins out, it’s essentially a solo instance anyway…
It is mostly client side. And it’s a race. The fastest most accurate players win. The ones who aren’t don’t.
I’d like to see the puzzle as a solo, client-side puzzle. That would make it responsive and based upon your own skill level.
Having an achievement for that scenario is perfect.
But you’re not fine with the difficulty. You can’t say you’re fine with the difficulty and then in the next sentence say it should be easier. Which removing the players from the puzzle would make it about 100x easier.
There is no way Anet can safely make content that caters to every single person who wants to play in every part of the world. It’s just impossible. So your solution is because maybe 1% of the players are in this situation the rest shouldn’t be able to have a go at it is basically what you’re saying.
I would love for ANet to show us what percent of players actually completed this at least once. Somehow I bet it’s more than 1%.
There is no way Anet can safely make content that caters to every single person who wants to play in every part of the world. It’s just impossible. So your solution is because maybe 1% of the players are in this situation the rest shouldn’t be able to have a go at it? That’s basically what you’re saying.
So let me get this straight. Anet needs to balance all future content in the game based on the lowest skilled player in the game so it’s “fair”? Yeah…I don’t see that working out to well.
Nobody said this, or even implied anything close. In addition, no where did this thread say “throw away the clock tower puzzle”. Don’t make up your own drama.
This thread is a lament on ANet’s choice of achievements for the holiday event — specifically an achievement that’s:
1. Dependent upon client/server latency
2. Cannot be incrementally progressed
3. Exists for a short time frame
It’s a worthy topic because achievements are a serious goal for many players.
If people were serious about achievements they wouldn’t have any issue working at it until they get it.
And you might have a point if no one could finish it but people have so any argument you have is moot.
So let me get this straight. Anet needs to balance all future content in the game based on the lowest skilled player in the game so it’s “fair”? Yeah…I don’t see that working out to well.
I got a lvl 80 exotic hammer, various greens and blues, 2 magic find boosters, 2 repair cannisters and quite a few halloween crafting materials and t-o-t bags.
It takes maybe 10 minutes, so all in all I’d say it’s worth it.
Uh, I don’t know where you’re getting this info from but I’m fairly certain they’ve always said that their intended focus on the game was on social game play. Meaning grouping.
Still people refuse to see our point. Not one single person wants a precursor weapon handed to them on a silver platter who has posted in this thread.
We want an alternative way to get these weapons THAT IS ACTUALLY FUN AND DOES NOT RELY ON RNG. In what way does that say we want it to be easy to get? I honestly don’t get it. It doesn’t need to be easy to get. It doesn’t need to be quick to get. It just needs to be fun to get. That’s the only requirement we want in our legendary grind.
I get tired of seeing posts like that and also people who admit they’ve only been playing for 2 days and think they have a clue how much effort people have been putting into getting their weapons.
For the hundredth time I ask; what is legendary about throwing items into a magic blender with the hope that your luck is in that day so it shoots out a precursor weapon or buying one on the market like it’s a common loaf of bread? And why are you so against changing the system for the better?
You can’t finish it because it’s impossible to do so at this point. Remember the event isn’t over yet? We’re only on act 2 or 4, with act 3 starting in about 9 hours.
Also FWIW there are many threads about this already and one is even still on the first page. Not to be an kitten but looking before you posted would have gotten you an answer more quickly.
If it’s such a concern of yours and there are so many that it’s problem for you maybe the issue is with you and not them?
And I’d just like to point out that it’s not any less difficult on a large charr or norn character. Because guess what? Other players with large character block them too. But you don’t see them complaining.
So yeah, stop making excuses for your inability to finish the puzzle. They’re just as entitled to be there as you are. Sorry bud.
if there is a tree at the corner of the my screen and i zoom in, the tree dissapears and then if i zoom out again the tree reappears in the corner of the screen
Stand in one place. Put your hands vertically next to your eyes. Now back up. You see more yet your field of view is small. Now repeat that process without your hands over your eyes.
You’re not seeing more with a small field of view, you just moved places.
Anyways, why would you begrudge people options? Options are good. Not having options is not good.
Except for you’re not seeing more stuff. Zoom just changes the camera position, and that’s all. If you can’t understand how it’s different then maybe do like 5 minutes of basic research before you make uninformed posts.
Just for reference, humans with optimal eye sight have about a 180 degree field of view, that’s half a circle for the uninformed. In game (before the change) I’m guessing the fov was limited to about 55 degrees, which is less than 1/3 of what we are used to seeing. Now you can see why this might cause issues for some people..
Works on third alt before inevitable crafting exp nerf
They already nerfed crafting exp quite heavily. They aren’t likely to do it again. It’s by design that raising a crafting profession from 1 to 400 will gain you exactly 10 levels no matter what your current level is.
Great post and love the sound of: “more awesome stuff to do at level 80”! Not that I doubted that Arenanet was working on all these things of course.
They’ve been saying for a while that we’ll get another big update in November on the scale of the one we got this week, or even bigger.
That being said. 10000 bots banned is a nice number. Sadly it doesn’t really show in the game. Why do you need to gather data when you can clearly see that a train of 20+ rangers all with bear pets and all running the same exact circuit are bots?
Just park a gm in the popular botting areas and it will be more than obvious within 5 minutes.
Hi,
I just bought the game and downloading now. I was hoping leveling would take time and deliver lots of fun.
Is the game made to level fast (Like umm….WoW?) I hope not. :-)
If you actually take time to level up it takes on average 90 hours to get to 80. That’s clearing each zone as you enter it. Doing all hearts and any events you come across mixed in with some crafting and maybe some pvp.
8 hours is far from what is an average speed for leveling up a character.
There is no problem. Prices have mostly been stable for awhile, it’s just that they’ve stabilized way above what casual gamers are interested in paying, so they claim it’s botters or exploiters or the super-rich just trying to manipulate the market.
The reality is, it costs on average several hundred gold to make a precursor. Therefore they should be priced on the TP for an average of several hundred gold.
I’m not what you would call a casual player and I still can’t keep up with the prices.
I’ve asked this before and never really got a reply from people who insist that RNG is fun… why are you against the system changing for the better? To one that is actually fun and anyone can get one if they do the work?
I’m not saying it should be easy or anything but RNG is only fun if you are winning, and odds are that you won’t.
The only possible way to farm the set has been nerfed. Now you must do your daily boss in labyrinth hoping while spending a crap ton on trading post to get the rest of the set. Grats to Anet for making them exotic, letting them drop too often to get em on market, then nerfing it to balance. So yet again, only the rich will prosper from this holiday.
Getting really old really fast. I don’t want everything today but for kittens sake I want the chance to work at something. As it stands, you want me to work at becoming a gold farmer. Not cool.
Except for they are soulbound so no one is profiting from them.
And they did cater to a global customer base. They put the time right on the kitten page. If you can’t even go to it and read it then nothing will help you.
If they’re only giving the times in one format it should be GMT.
Except for Anet is an American company. Why would they display times for a country that they aren’t in? Or more specifically why would they make that their primary time display on their website?
“So what you’re saying is people are flat out buying completed legendaries? Because that’s the only way you can have one without having 100% world completion.”
I think you misunderstood. I have seen players with precursors running around who do not have 100% world completion, & no dungeon armor/weapons whatsoever. What is legendary about their feats? Meanwhile, we have players with 700+ hours into the game & have utterly destroyed this game, been through every path of every dungeon 10+ times, have everything for legendary but precursor but are unable to craft legendary because they aren’t “Legendary players”
Do you see what is wrong here?
Ah. I totally misread your post. My bad.
I would be in that second category of people who have been all over the place yet apparently since I don’t farm cursed shore for 10 hours a day I’m not worthy of having a precursor.
This response will probably generate lots of HATE but..leave the precursor drop rate alone! don’t change it! i don’t want to see thousands of noobs running round with legendary weapons! these items are supposed to be unique, rare and desirable! easily obtainable should not be part of that list! not to mention the cheaters out there that could go out and buy gold illegally to easily obtain a precursor if the drop rate is changed. Make them work as hard as us honest players to achieve this reward!
And before anyone says it..No i don’t have my precursor yet either but it gives me something to look forward to and work towards every time i log into the game. Dont feed the “I WANT I WANT I WANT” babies in this game Anet! make it hard! make it worthwhile!
Cheers.
So if others have them that makes them less desirable? This type of thinking really confuses me. Because – and this may come as a shock to some – a lot of people already have legendary weapons and as more time passes even more people will. If you want to remain a unique snowflake you are better off not going after a legendary at all.
To late. I already see tons of baddies running around with their precursors. No 100% world completion, no dungeon armor/weapons to speak of, yet somehow have a precursor. Meanwhile, there are those of us who have “everything” & have played for 700+ hours & destroyed every faucet of gameplay in GW2 & have to resort to gambling away at Mystic Forge or buying gold from 3rd party sites. Neither of those options define a “legendary” player. This needs to be changed immediately. Period.
So what you’re saying is people are flat out buying completed legendaries? Because that’s the only way you can have one without having 100% world completion.
People, people, you have to remember:
Clipping is a part of almost EVERY MODERN VIDEO GAME.
Look at Skyrim. Pick an Argonian or Khajit, and their tails clip through almost every armor set.
Seriously, clipping like this isn’t a problem.
You might have a point if they didn’t have armors that didn’t have clipping in the game. The heavy t3 armor works just fine. They built around the tail. There is absolutely no reason why they can’t do that for the rest of the charr armors. It’s just pure laziness and bad game design.
I don’t think it would take all that long to make some unique meshes to fit the charr tales in. 2-3 days to make the meshes and another 2-3 days to test them.
As mentioned above, if amateurs can do it in games like Skyrim I’m sure pros shouldn’t have any trouble doing it as well.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my charr warrior, he’s a kitten incarnate. But the clipping still needs to be fixed.
I wish MAG would stop losing, I enjoyed fighting them a lot as Tarnished Coast. They are a great bunch of gamers… most didn’t even complain about losing, almost zero q.q posts if any. Either that… or I hope GOON and SFD transfer to a server with more population so we can have our epic brawls.
Yeah I miss fighting Tarnished Coast. My dream bracket right now would be Toast vs Mag vs Fort Aspergewood but we need to maintain our pop and keep building our new guilds and pubbies up first.
I’m not aware of any plans for GOON or SFD to transfer server. Constantly fighting uphill battles makes us better players I guess and you figure once you lose enough, its not the end of the world. Good times.
I’m curious about the tactic where you guys log off and/or alt-f4 when you lose an even fight. Does that make you a better player or just a coward? That’s the part I’m getting stuck on.
That never happens because Darkhaven doesn’t stick around for even fights.
Interesting you say that because it happened at least 3 times to me earlier tonight in back to back fights. They were sporting the lovely [GOON] tag.
But yeah..never happens. I just imagined a guardian disappearing into thin air when his health was about to drop to 0. I wasn’t aware that Anet gave guardians stealth in the patch the other day. My bad.
I was obviously exaggerating in the same way that you consider that an organized tactic. At least, I hope you were exaggerating, considering you made that reply to a pretty unrelated post to be a jerk out of nowhere.
Call me frustrated when the first 3 maguuma people I fight in NSP borderlands last night all with the goon tag disappear before my eyes and none of them were thieves.
Perhaps it didn’t need to be brought into this thread but you guys keep going on and on about being superior and outnumbered so when this happens… I was a little angry.
This is also the first time I’ve ever encountered it in any of our match ups.
We can mobilize, break, and regroup our stacks quickly on Mag now. We’re getting really good at moving them around in live environments and countering people back when they try to break us up. If you’ve been trying to find a new server, read this thread and realize that Maguuma is the place to be
Also, when we lose, we fight back instead of whining on the forums like the servers we fight!
Interesting you say that because it happened at least 3 times to me earlier tonight in back to back fights. They were sporting the lovely [GOON] tag.
But yeah..never happens. I just imagined a guardian disappearing into thin air when his health was about to drop to 0. I wasn’t aware that Anet gave guardians stealth in the patch the other day. My bad.
OT whining in a Maguuma tactics thread? Our opponents get this demoralized even when they’re winning!
Demoralizing? You guys are the ones posting in threads about how you 6v1 us and all that other nonsense about being so dramatically outnumbered all the time and then proceed to alt-f4 when you get beat in a 1v1 fight. If you want to call that demoralizing then go right on ahead and do so. Personally I have another word for what I would call that.
I wish MAG would stop losing, I enjoyed fighting them a lot as Tarnished Coast. They are a great bunch of gamers… most didn’t even complain about losing, almost zero q.q posts if any. Either that… or I hope GOON and SFD transfer to a server with more population so we can have our epic brawls.
Yeah I miss fighting Tarnished Coast. My dream bracket right now would be Toast vs Mag vs Fort Aspergewood but we need to maintain our pop and keep building our new guilds and pubbies up first.
I’m not aware of any plans for GOON or SFD to transfer server. Constantly fighting uphill battles makes us better players I guess and you figure once you lose enough, its not the end of the world. Good times.
I’m curious about the tactic where you guys log off and/or alt-f4 when you lose an even fight. Does that make you a better player or just a coward? That’s the part I’m getting stuck on.
That never happens because Darkhaven doesn’t stick around for even fights.
Interesting you say that because it happened at least 3 times to me earlier tonight in back to back fights. They were sporting the lovely [GOON] tag.
But yeah..never happens. I just imagined a guardian disappearing into thin air when his health was about to drop to 0. I wasn’t aware that Anet gave guardians stealth in the patch the other day. My bad.
I wish MAG would stop losing, I enjoyed fighting them a lot as Tarnished Coast. They are a great bunch of gamers… most didn’t even complain about losing, almost zero q.q posts if any. Either that… or I hope GOON and SFD transfer to a server with more population so we can have our epic brawls.
Yeah I miss fighting Tarnished Coast. My dream bracket right now would be Toast vs Mag vs Fort Aspergewood but we need to maintain our pop and keep building our new guilds and pubbies up first.
I’m not aware of any plans for GOON or SFD to transfer server. Constantly fighting uphill battles makes us better players I guess and you figure once you lose enough, its not the end of the world. Good times.
I’m curious about the tactic where you guys log off and/or alt-f4 when you lose an even fight. Does that make you a better player or just a coward? That’s the part I’m getting stuck on.
Complaining that you can’t do your achievement because your server dominates wv3 to hard is like complaining you didn’t get enough money when you won the lottery. It’s just completely stupid and ungrateful.
I don’t think you people realize that there isn’t 50 players for the other servers on, ever. We literally sit outside of their last base and wait for them to come out, eventually they get up 10 – 12 people and we rush up but they all run back into their keep.
It is difficult to see more than 15 unique players per day because the top guilds on the two opposing servers disbanded and went to other servers.
How terrible for you that you dominated them so much that they don’t want to run out to be fodder for your achievement. Really. Other people need to be more considerate of your needs! Consider the others achievements people! Please!
On a serious note if you and your guild transfered to a lower bracket server you wouldn’t have any such issues. But I’m guessing the only reason you’re on blackgate and have the nerve to complain about something like that is because you’re a band wagoner.
The thing is, what will YOU do to fix this clipping issue? From my view, this is the best we can get. Charr shoulder pads are large and spikey, shields and some weapons will clip into them but what can we do to change it to make it even more ridiculous? Vanishing spikes? Remove armor piece entirely? Position the shield lower though that won’t look right. There are some things we just have to deal with just cause there’s no other way to make it better. It seems like the best we can get. Also some shoulder pads have to be lifted to avoid further clipping with different armor configurations.
As for weapons clipping into cloth and leather. The only possible way to fix weapon clipping that I can think of is instead of rigging the weapons statically to the model skeleton around the waist, but instead make it act as a “ragdoll” or with physics that collide with armor though that can still make it look silly with the jerky movements of the characters and will also have to rig the armor into the physics system.
Yeah a lot of it would involve heavy tweaking of the armor to fix a lot of the clipping problems. But the only one that really bugs me is no tail holes in about 99% of the armors.
The other day I finally broke down and bought the Charr t3 heavy armor pants and it’s glorious because it’s pretty much the only armor in the game that doesn’t clip through the tail. And they also fixed the see through section on them, too. Which I am actually surprised happened as fast as it did.
If they can do it for one armor, why not all of them?
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