Honestly I’d put Signet of Rage as one of the best elites, simply because you’re actually getting something from it all the time, unlike nearly every other elite where 99% of the time it’s sitting on your bar being a complete waste of space.
Most elites I would without a second thought replace with a utility skill, because most of them are pretty mediocre, and all of them have too long of a cooldown. At least utility skills can be used.
Food offers benefits, alcohol doesnt (im talking in game benefits like power).
He’s not talking about benefits, his point is, if Anet is so careful to not introduce certain things that might prove offensive to a certain type of person, then why introduce alcohol? Alcohol is generally seen as a negative beverage.
I, for one, am not offended by any of the above cases.
Right but if they added an item that gave an advantage, but it had issues with religion, that may be an explanation for it not being in game. Thats why alcohol would be allowed.
There are hamburgers in the game, which you can certainly make using meat from cows you slay, and 1 recipe requires Rice Wine, which is alcohol.
Plus, the whole “murder everything you see” thing the game has going is probably offensive to a lot of people. Which is not cared about.
Though I agree completely with this thread, there’s one thing I’d like to point out:
If you’re crafting 80 exotics, Ori and Hardened Leather are secondary materials on both Armorsmithing and Leatherworking. The primary material is Gossamer, because the insignias need 5 bolts of it each, and everything needs 1 Gossamer for padding (except headpieces, which need 2, and leather boots, which need none). To make a full set of metal armor, you need nearly 3x as much Gossamer as Ori.
If you’re worried about gold or materials then I suggest Chef as a profession that you craft since most of the ingredients can be bought through karma.
Chef costs a pretty good amount of money between lots of necessary vendor buys (water, flour, sugar, etc) and expensive ingredients on the TP (eggs, vanilla) and very rarely makes anything worth selling on the TP to get a little money back, and never anything that can even be vendored.
34) Switching to the Medkit does not incur a 1s recharge on the Medkit skill itself unless you were already holding the Medkit. This allows using Kit Refinement twice nearly instantly, which can be valuable sometimes (notably against the Toy Golems, where it usually constituted roughly half my damage output against those stunlocking kittens)
35) Swapping to Grenade Kit with Kit Refinement while inside of an enemy (via a dodge or by not having Melee Assist on) will cause all the grenades to detonate immediately instead of spreading out and mostly being useless.
In PvE I never really had any problem facetanking trash mobs with just Knights gear.
Kiting like that just really isn’t all that necessary.
Though being a condition build considering P/P it might not work as well in your case.
As for a suggestion, stacking Toughness makes it a lot easier to just stand there and basically just PBAoE with the grenades, turning off quick targeting will allow you to fire even while holding down RMB (hit it once to get a targeting circle, again to fire), and I would also suggest bringing Elixir Gun with you (preferably with 10 in Tools for Kit Refinement) and use Super Elixir.
And don’t bother using grenades against single targets, it’s really not worth it any more. Use the toolbelt skill, sure, but it’s not particularly useful to switch to the kit unless you’re against a group of enemies. And even then, it’s not really very valuable at ranges against things that don’t stand still anyway, so you’re often better off using them at nearly point blank. Don’t let the 1200 range fool you, that’s only for when something else is holding their attention.
Every leap attack and nearly every projectile has a maximum range that it can’t go past. If someone is in range when its cast, but is out of the range by the time it finishes, they won’t be hit, as it will not adjust the range beyond what the normal limit is, unlike many games.
So an enemy running away from you effectively shortens the range of any projectile attack or leap according to how fast they’re moving and how fast the projectile or leap moves.
It shows up because it’s not immediately obvious that you’re in an overflow, which is relevant in some circumstances.
Mainly for when you’re leveling a craft.
Last Refuge is not OP, it’s kittenty. 90% of the time, gets you killed in PVP. Today for example, happened 3 matches in a row. I would survive those encounters wasn’t for this kittening trait getting me revealed whenever I used C&D to recover some HP.
He was joking that it might be easier to get it removed by complaining that it was OP than by complaining it’s worse than nothing.
yes, you pump 8 headshots and lose 32 initiative …. the cost is a lot of damage lost, so … no.
you can’t melee bosses because of lol hp/toughness ratios, and the auto atack from pistol is very weak, and no synergy at all with dps builds….
So what you’re complaining about is that you don’t have dps, utility, and survivability all at the same time.
you’re missing some sources of cloth and leather: namely, that some mobs drop it, humanoid mobs also drop bags of X material which can contain cloth
Yeah, bags may contain cloth. Or they may contain butter, cinnamon, or a host of other non-cloth materials. That is, of course, assuming the humanoid drops a bag in the first place. Ore nodes, meanwhile, are guaranteed to drop metal.
And, of course, said bags also may contain metal.
You know, I don’t think people realize just how much cloth is needed.
Exotic recipes for armor need FIVE Gossamer bolts for the insignia alone, and then another one for the padding (2 for the helmet padding, none for leather boots).
An Ori chestpiece requires more Gossamer than Ori.
Same goes for Hardened Leather.
Every other piece has smaller and smaller Ori or HL requirements, but the same Gossamer requirement.
That means a full set of exotic metal armor needs 28 Ori ore and 74 Gossamer scraps.
When the ore is easier to acquire through similar means to the cloth (salvaging, because of weapons being involved) and has static nodes in known locations that can be reliably gathered. And the Gossamer is 50% more expensive on the TP.
Really, from looking at other recipes, the Ori requirements of armorsmithing are pathetic.
A single exotic inscription requires more Ori than an entire set of Ori armor.
And yet it’s still cheaper than Gossamer because of how much easier it is to get.
An instant cast (but still with the delay time) with ~5-6 stacks of vulnerability would be interesting.
That is, in fact, what it was in the betas.
A drastically shorter aftercast delay (so you could at least get the terrible autoattack in once between casts), and the cooldown began the moment the spell began, not when it exploded.
It almost resembled something useful.
As it stands now, there is absolutely no reason at all to remain in Water with a Scepter once you fire off the heals because the autoattack and shatterstone are so terrible.
Not that there’s really any reason to use a Scepter at all aside from the Earth and Fire autoattacks…
The explorer achievement doesn’t mean anything for 100%, it’s just how many areas on the map are uncovered.
You can easily miss POIs and the like and still get the explorer achievement.
Basically, if the attack is a sweep, with a reasonably sized weapon (so basically everything but dagger) it will be AoE.
Some chains that have sweeps in them end with a stab however (warrior sword, mesmer sword, guardian sword sort of, might be more) that will only hit 1 target.
And those same salvaging tips apply to metals, which can still be gathered from nodes.
So it’s still easier to get metals.
In fact, it’s even EASIER because many weapons will also give metal salvage, while only armor pieces will give cloth or leather.
Metal is used for crafting both armor and weapons, while cloth and leather are only used for armor.
Yeah, and cloth is used in EVERY armor piece of all 3 professions (except leather boots), AND is needed for insignias for every single one of them.
The amount of cloth needed overall isn’t much less than metal needs, except metals are FAR more common because of nodes.
We should get off the precious metals system and adopt potatoes as our currency. At the end of the day potatoes are worth more than gold. Stranded on a desert island with a sack of gold and it’s worthless, but a sack of potatoes is lunch.
So you’re saying that the guy that spiked the price of potatoes a few days ago knew something the rest of us didn’t?
hey guys thanks for the Advice, I do have a lv 80 Guardian. and from what I’ve played I don’t think it’s WHM material more Paladin. but I am thinking of playing a Water/Earth based Ele although I will try using Water as much as possible. and the Devout robes is a good idea thanks gimme, does anyone know how much they cost? and are they race bound?
They’re not race bound, and the set in Rata Sum costs about 10s-12s total.
And those same salvaging tips apply to metals, which can still be gathered from nodes.
So it’s still easier to get metals.
In fact, it’s even EASIER because many weapons will also give metal salvage, while only armor pieces will give cloth or leather.
The funny thing with that though is that gold was worth very little, fairly on par with copper in GW2, and yet now gold is worth quite a bit.
And we use platinum to make armor :/
Water Attunement is probably the best healing capability in the game, which would be on an Elementalist, and the Devout armor set should get the look pretty well. It can be bought from a vendor in the bottom floor of the cube in Rata Sum.
Yes, actually. Note how 800k and 846k are not very far apart.
A condition build and a power build will not output a terribly large difference in dps. Conditions should generally be expected to be higher, since they have to deal their damage over time instead of immediately, but it’s not that big of a difference.
But with the stack limits, condition builds do almost no damage at all when there’s a few of them there, while direct damage is not limited in such a manner.
After reset, the servers will take a color according to their rating compared to each other.
They are often the same, however.
Many of the exploration items can be picked up by being careful, but many are inside of towers or keeps that you have to breach in order to get them, and is generally unreasonable to expect it to happen (like the keeps in EBG). The easiest way would be to transfer to a server that is the color you want, or is dominating the field, and do the exploration from there.
ok im mostly looking forward to my legendarys do I have to wait till I each 80?
Well, you could start working on it now, but there’s no way you’ll get it done before 80 unless you buy over a thousand dollars in gold… in all honestly, I would focus on getting to 80 and learning the game before considering a legendary.
Unless you directly buy one from the TP it’s literally impossible to get a legendary without hitting 80 because the 100% map completion alone would get you to level 80.
And involves several level 80 areas anyway.
1%, 4.99%, same system. All that it does is lowers the cost of monopolists to maintain their price lock on low volume items, and increases the cost to buyers on high volume items.
If I’m trying to hold Dusks at 600g, and you post at 599.99.99, I can either let you get one of my sales, or pay 30g to buy up your undercut and relist at my price. At 1% that goes down to 24g, 2% it’s 18 etc…. Every time you step up the “meaningful undercut” you make it cost less and less for me to keep a stranglehold on the market.
Except of course that due to the 10% sales tax you lose a lot more than that.
Even at 5% minimum undercut (which is far too high) you still lose 60g by doing so, while tying up 600g in the meantime.
At 1%, that’s 84g, which isn’t a whole lot less than the 90g loss each at same price.
How much gold would someone be willing to hemorrhage to keep the price from dropping?
Plus, if the price truly is far higher than it should be, it’s only a matter of time until the supply overcomes his ability to hold the price high, the price drops, and now this person is stuck with a ton of completely overpriced items that he will have to sell at an even bigger loss to get some of his money back.
Aside from price fixing scenarios, whose survivability wouldn’t be impacted too much, forcing real undercuts causes prices to drop far more rapidly than the glacial speed it drops from 1c undercuts.
And it wouldn’t be a costless LIFO system any more, which is still the whole point.
I’d like to see you kill anything spamming head shot.
HS = Heartseeker.
I like to see you killing anything spamming heartseeker.
I mean, the enemy could, accidently of course, everything else would be skill, press the dodge button, and you did absolutely nothing other than wasting your whole initiative to be a free kill.
If you die to a spam Thief, then why the hell do you play PvP in the first place?
And even more so, how do you dare to complain about something that killed you, when the reason you died was clearly that you suck.
Wow you take so much based on a simple correction.
Where in that post did I say ANYTHING about the validity of the statements involved?
The only thing I said was that HS means Heartseeker, since it seemed like the person thought that everyone was whining about Headshot, not Heartseeker.
People don’t seem to understand why items are listed at $199.99 irl.
Because the company values the momentary period of time that someone processes that as “$199” instead of “$200” more than they value 1 cent.
And it’s plainly not in any way price competition when they do that because EVERYONE does that.
they do it for the reason that The $0.01 is able to sell more things. They are competing with the price that is set in a person’s mind and how much the person expect to pay for the item. The 1c undercutting in this case has been used to produce more sells.
Except EVERYONE “undercuts” the real price by 1 cent. If they were actually fighting each others prices in this manner they wouldn’t all be at 1 or 5 cents below the dollar, or at $x.49, or whatever.
The only reason they do it is because the minor perception difference between the 2 prices, the way that people process the beginning and not the end of the number, is worth more than 1 cent.
However, there is no perceptual difference between $199.99 and $199.98, like there is with $200 and $199.99, and people don’t give a kitten about the 1 cent, which is why you don’t see $x.98 or other weird numbers except for things under a dollar.
So, taking this into account, all the arguments in here should be moved by 1 cent down. 1g to 99s99c. And then the 1c undercut to 99s98c is still completely insignificant.
I am seeing what I 1st believed to be a thief cloak, then end up right beside me and then fire off both earth dagger offhand elemental skills … so they have to be elementals … so how are they cloaking from a distance (out of combat range)?
And yes, they are cloaking, it takes some time between when they vanish, and then appear beside me.
Any class can cloak with Rune of Infiltration,including Elementalist
That still wouldn’t be the case in the OP since it was from out of combat range while the rune requires 10% health.
Don’t have 2 professions that use the same materials at the same time (namely, Weaponsmithing, Armorsmithing, and Jewelcrafting to a lesser extent). Often you won’t have enough materials from regular gathering to cover even one, let alone both of them.
Get a salvage kit, use it on whites and salvage items, and later on blues. The mats are usually worth more than the item you salvaged, and it’s a good way to extend the lifetime of your inventory.
Click the gear in the top right and use Deposit All Collectibles. That will put crafting materials that are in your inventory into a tab at the bank, which can be accessed from any crafting station.
Completing a zone 100% will give you some awards. Some greens (they often won’t actually be useful, but they sell decently well at a vendor) a small stack of materials (some of those can be quite valuable) and sometimes Black Lion stuff (which you’d otherwise have to buy using gems).
Fully exploring the 6 capital cities (Rata Sum, The Grove, Divinity’s Reach, Hoelbrak, and the Black Citadel) will give a decent amount of experience, as well as 3 Basic Transmutation Stones each. This can be done on every character, which effectively makes Basic Transmutation Stones free rather than having to spend gems on them.
Do Dynamic Events when you pass them. They give good money, experience, and karma. Though fights against Champions often take far too long for the reward you get for them, though some of those will spawn a chest afterwards that can give more stuff.
You ran right into the reason WHY the rogue class is a terrible idea, Kaimick.
They’re perpetually on a knife’s edge between worthless and OP because their class defining capabilities are high burst and low survivability.
Either they burst well, kill their target, and their low survivability doesn’t matter, or their burst fails and they get ground into dust because of no survivability.
Changing their capabilities even slightly is capable of throwing them from one end of the spectrum to the other.
And yet every developer tries to put one in a game, for some reason, despite no one ever succeeding in finding a middle ground for the class.
No, it is NOT the same exact system if the requirement is less than 5%.
The system we have now is in effect a LIFO system, where someone gets to go to the front of the line for a ridiculously low price that no one actually gives a kitten about.
5% is FAR more than is necessary to make someone actually make a meaningful distinction in price.
People don’t seem to understand why items are listed at $199.99 irl.
Because the company values the momentary period of time that someone processes that as “$199” instead of “$200” more than they value 1 cent.
And it’s plainly not in any way price competition when they do that because EVERYONE does that.
One area of interest is one or two of the Charr areas has a few tiny items on the ground that are easy to miss if you weren’t using real AoEs to destroy the place.
Head back to the charr buildings and explode the ground until you stop breaking things.
While I agree with you on the 5%+1c problem, there’s no reason why the number wouldn’t be less than 5%.
The limit is to prevent stupefyingly small undercuts, not to prevent someone from having to relist.
And in the current system the buyers are perpetually stuck at an inflated price because it doesn’t drop due to useless 1c undercuts.
I kinda agree with Bunzy on the heal after death thing. But only kinda.
Taking away either mechanic prevents a major comeback.
How about this:
On death (after downed state) a 1-, 2-, or even 5-minute timer starts on the corpse. If players don’t get to that corpse to start healing it, then that corpse is instantly teleported to the nearest uncontested WP.
Does that sound good? I know people have been constantly complaining about corpse-spying, so this might work for that as well.
You could make the corpse attackable. Start at half health (maybe double it, so rez time is the same). If the corpse reaches 0 health then they’re forced to respawn.
Make a channeled move, like the stake, that will burn a body, rapidly causing damage.
No more corpse spying, cleaning up after a zerg before it gets back is fairly simple, and no more staring at that 90% corpse in the middle of a siege knowing there’s nothing you can actually do to stop it from getting up soon.
Is there such a thing as PvP without “domination”?
Just going to note here that “domination” refers to the domination game mode common in video games, which is getting points for controlling areas of a map.
I thought it was called “conquest”? I suppose that is interchangeable though.
Either one works really, though I think technically conquest uses the ticket system, where control of points and kills causes the other team to lose tickets, rather than you gaining points.
It’s effectively the same thing, but whatever.
I’m not trolling. I just can’t come to understand how 1 copper can be ok in some situations, and not ok in others. It’s the same amount either way.
No, it’s really not. Let’s put it in a different situation. Say you’re destitute, with only 1c to your name. If I ask you to give me 1c, would you give it to me? Doubt it. Now, say you have 1g, and I ask you for that same 1c. I’m betting you’d be much more likely to be generous. Why? Because 1c matters less when you’re talking in terms of gold.
The reason you’re being accused of trolling is because this should be manifestly obvious, but you refuse to concede it.
I don’t know how your example applies to the TP. We’re talking about selling items, not giving money away.
And this is why you’re accused of trolling.
You don’t get a whole lot more obvious of a metaphor than that.
Is there such a thing as PvP without “domination”?
Just going to note here that “domination” refers to the domination game mode common in video games, which is getting points for controlling areas of a map.
