I believe they’re considering splits more. Especially when it comes to pets and spirits.
I really hope you’re right about that.
But in the meantime I’ve heard 50 different rumors from sources claiming to be in Test Krewe or who knew someone in it, and ain’t seen 1 yet that was even in the same zipcode
Two Veteran Risen Subjugators, more than 15 unidentified wells.
Luckily, the Pact got past the hill with our zerg, while some stayed behind to take down the Subjugators. This is just a sloppy AI, and it’s been like this for nearly a month now.
LOL! … nice cap… that beats any of the #‘s in the videos I’ve captured so far.
I’d pay real money to see these things all invade Queensdale for just one afternoon.
Scaled down in level of course, but still, the shock effect would be priceless.
Nah. I know people who have 10 alts. Park them all at a chest and you get 100 empyreal frags per day doing absolutely nothing but a few clicks.
Lucky them… Though they also payed …what.. 50 bucks in gems for that privilege and who knows how much time Powerleveling ’em?
I can’t do that…
I have to use all of my characters for specialized roles every day and move them around a lot. I got a temple commander, a monk, a DPS’er, a Mez, and a crafter/accountant. I’d also point out that anyone who’s just “parking”, is missing out on a ton of money from Ancient sapplings and other node commodities that are going insane right now
“Minidungeons” … or typically what you’d see listed in your Explorer locations where you usually fight some Vets to open a door… seem give to up to 9 shards pretty consistently. This might be a real boon to those with lots of alts if you bring them all to the same JP or Minidungeon and park them at the door/gate that has to be opened.
One example… that cave below the spinach patch in Gendarren… 3 lousy shards for soloing a Champion Spider = not worth it. But parking my other 4 alts right at the lock gate first and getting them all through it once it’s opened… turns the crappy drop amount of a PITA mini dungeon into almost a full scale dungeon once each alt pops the chest.
These are horrible Spirit Changes, especially in PvE.
They are now litterally PENALIZING us for managing to keep our spirits alive the full 60 seconds. It’s time for PvE splits. It’s been time for them for a LONG KITTEN TIME NOW.
Really getting fed up with this stuff.
And even more fed up with Sharp’s excuses and outright refusals to do Splits.
He needs to be fired. I’m dead serious about this.
Was popping both S&R + Nature’sRenewal a Lupi fight for 3 attempts and it still wasn’t enough to keep the other Puggers on my team up even though there was not even a single grub buff on him. ….pretty sad.
^Yes Aggro managesment is also really really important. Pull/Yank all the harmless mobs away from the Subjugator Vets and hopefully the Pact “Redshirts” will chase ’em.
The WORST THING you can possibly do in this Escort, is have a ton of people who are only focused on just insta-nuking everything at Ranged, and also applying Speed Boosts to the Pact. By doing that sort of indiscriminate nuking, they’re pretty much guaranteed to aggro the Subjugators who will then spam the Wells instantly. It is incredibly important to leave the harmless risen minions alive as long as ya can until the Subjugators are dead.
Ppl mad b/c they don’t get Berzerkers 24/7 as drops. Even though speed clearing 5 Dungeons in 1 hour which = easy Shards to just craft their own stats instead…
….I’m Playing a very very very small Violin for them right now
Plus, that nerf didn’t really effect PvE because nobody plays a spirit ranger in PvE.
I play one…. especially in all the Straits of Devastation events.
Infact those spirits are one of the reasons my server continued to open Balthazar every night after Vet Subjs were given this incredibly bugged instant-cast Well Spam.
Overall, I’m not actually finding Ascended Mats to be a major grind.
With ONE BIG EXCPETION … Empyr Shards … I think they’re dropping at roughly half the rate they should really be dropping at. The worst part in WvW with them is you have to tag the enemy Guild Claiming NPC pretty hard in camps to get any of them at all. There’s also several very difficult Jumping Puzzles that are only giving ~3 of them, or NONE AT ALL
I think it’s really important to be a kitten to bad rangers. They need as many people as they can telling them that their class is just bad overall and keeps getting worse every update. Then they can switch to maining another class that’s easier to play correctly and eventually Anet will have to take notice of the record low playing-time the class gets in their datamining … and hopefully … eventually … stop nerfing ranger in PvE & WvW just b/c some guys had a ranger on their team and won some silly E-Sports thingy @ PAX.
(they wouldn’t have ever nerfed Warrior or Guardian for that reason…)
What most people don’t even realize here, is that it’s not even the main Pact NPCs that constitute the Morale Bar here… It’s the unnamed or generic named ones that you simply can’t let die. And half of them always run strait into melee.
Another misconception I’m seeing is “HEAL THE PACT!” … No sorry, these Wells deal 2000 damage per tick. The most you can heal any ally for is about 300 hps per tick and all our ally Heals all have a target limit of 5 and the worst part about that is the fact that the game prioritizes healing human players & pets in range before healing these NPCs.
Now for something that might actually help… Here’s video proof (with a funny ending) that they won’t cast those wells as long as the players with Aggro are staying in Melee Range to it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0rUMPDWm7k
This isn’t a theory either, it’s proven…. so is the opposite extreme that they will cast wells 95% of the time the instant they get up from a careless LB ranger using PointBlankShot on them. So if you see careless rangers or some other ranged n00bs attacking these that way, be sure to PM them about it and let them know that they’d literally be more useful if they were just AFK’ing instead.
I saw this after taking a keep and lol’d… then felt like I had to give up on WvW for the week b/c I’ll just be too busy trying to squeeze 4-5 Dungeon runs in a day and enough temples every day to stay ahead of the 100 of each shards needed per day…
Instead of something that would get MORE people to WvW, I think it’s decidedly gone the opposite direction and will actually mean less people finding time to.
The jumping puzzle rewards are still pretty piddly. You get more bloodstone dust for doing one loop around Queensdale for champ boxes, and you can’t say those events are difficult.
yeah…
Also for some reason, half of the HARDER jump puzz’s I’m doing, their chests aren’t giving anything at all. I don’t know if that’s intentional but it’s pretty lame.
The one behind Hope Falls (malchors) … Griffon Run after getting to it with the Bomb … Goem’s Lab, Dierdre’s Steps … etc. All examples. It seems like “Exploring” puzzles give more. (where you fight stuff more than Jump)
If that’s true and they are expensive to make, then probably you can sell them for a decent amount.
NOPE.
Most Exotic weapons are all selling for 1.5g now or LESS.
The plated DOWELS however … which you need 5 of, are going for 1.3 per.
All completed Inscriptions are over 8 gold a piece right now.
Salvaged 7 exotics, only 3 dark matter
Used BLT kit
Ditto
Luckily today I found TWO exotics just playing the game normally with only 50% MF. One from a Bonus chest doing Temples… another just literally fell off some Crazed Windrider…
Plus when I checked the price of most Exotics (b/c I was already crafting some)… I noticed lots of them are only 1-2 gold right now and we know many low-demand ones averaged even less than that on the TP a few weeks ago.
So if their drop rate has indeed been tweaked up a little… then there shoudn’t be any problems here in the long run (despite T6’s still being hard to get)
The Crit bonus on Celestial has completely laughable “potential”.
This is pretty plain to see just switching from one item piece that has NO precision on it to the Celestial piece which only averages +15 – +30 precision…. and only seeing your chance to crit move 1% at a time… Even the weapon only gives 80, while BERZERKERS which doesn’t even have precision as anything but a secondary stat, still give 125. These ratios are COMPLETELY OFF. I don’t know if everything needs a boost here to compensate for the loss of MF%…. but I know for a fact that Precision needs atleast a 20%-40% boost here otherwise this now an even worse set in PvE than Carrion Stats.
This also goes hand in hand with Condition caps in general in PvE, and “Yellow HP bar” Foes/structures that are IMMUNE to conditions and crits.
Teh descriptions of the fight mention a ton of aoe going on. Does this mean my ranger pet is going to be dead 3 seconds into this fight and leave me doing a fraction of my dps?
That’s okay though…. You don’t have much use for the Ascended drop anyway since you’re only getting a portion of the increase in damage and stats from the Ascended Gear that real classes get.
After the outbursts/harassment I saw in-game (and had to /report) for just casually pointing out that some Ember farmers were making our Arah Gates Push a lttle too difficult … I didn’t even bother with the Invasion events once I noticed they were basically the same premise. Yeah I probably missed out on a lot of “l00t”, but I’d much rather lose l00t than sanity…
She is definitely not bugged. If you have questions in regards how to beat him. As Brazil have demonstrated, there are plenty of videos out there. If you want an in game demonstration, I’d be more than welcome to have you on one of my p4 runs.
Just going to point this out, She CAN BE bugged. I do not know how or why, but a few times when my group has straight up dps her in the corner, she will not dissappear after the initial. half way point. Anyone else has experienced this?
I call mine praystyle. I stack critdmg with no critchance and pray for good rng.
I like it! Gives me an idea for my Necro… I’ll just take the 20 or 30 points I’d put into Curses and make a minigame out of leaving them unallocated as long as I possibly can so that the bad RNG always leads back to temptation. I’ll call the PreCursor build.
Also, I don’t know anything about necros but I always win with a power wellomancer build. So they need nerfed right? Isn’t that the criteria? Because unless I’m mistaken, that’s the logic that’s leading to a spirit build nerf. :p
Think about it: all they have to do is drop wells on their target GG. Spirits you have to suffer a stupid long cast time, hope they don’t die, and hope your enemy doesn’t know to kill the sun spirit. :/
If what you’re saying is true, Indoles, I expect to see major nerfs to other builds on other professions, don’t you agree? Particularly necro and warrior. Yes, I said warrior nerf. And guardian nerfs. Iduelist nerf too.
*edit sry if that comes off as harsh but it’s just how I feel about it right now. Emotions can be wrong and I definately don’t have all the facts so, ya, I needed this disclaimer here
Don’t forget Thief Nerfs…. Take a step into WvW and it’s literally all you ever see…. tons of thieves, no rangers… and even more complaints. Or y’know, they coulda just had Ranger hard COUNTER stealth with Tracking skills like we saw in early Alpha :p
LEEDLELEEDDLLELEEEEE….. …that’s all I heard when they were making exuses on why they can’t just Skill-Split the stupid things between TWO GAME MODES (it’s not 3…. it’s only TWO … god talk about intellectual dishonesty)
So wait… I heard more ranger nerfs… Could you all just please instead remove the whole class from PvP isntead? That’d be a lot faster and save a lot of time (and our sanity in PvE). Thanks
I don’t think you understand…. It’s not the same Escort it was last month when any old server could do it by Zerging hard enough. They changed the skills of what spawns on it.
The ascended crafting will require obsidian shards. Prepare for Balthazar to be open 24/7 for a while.
No one’s going to be succeeding in keeping it open. The only thing that will happen 24 hours out of the day will be people whining about it NOT BEING OPEN on 95% of servers.
The main reason being that most people who show up, don’t follow mapchat OR commanders. I’m planning to put a guide up here of where every single Vet Subjugator can possibly spawn, but I guarantee that almost none of the people in-game showing up will have ever looked at it. Most people will ultimately just buy Orrion Jewel boxes for like 5x the Karma price per Shard b/c there’s nothing else to spend Karma on…. even though they could also be making tons of T6 mats (between 15-40) with the Obsids that we unlock almost daily on the servers that are actually getting good at this whole encounter.
Ever stopped for 5sec to explain a fight to a new player? Assist someone on a build? Stop to resurrect a total stranger?
All the frikking time… I’m one of the two main reasons extremely difficult D.E.‘s succeed on various servers. I’m constantly compromising and making personal sacrifices (especially on loot) for the sake of new players. If you don’t believe that then I’d be more than happy to PM you references who’d corroborate it. that DOESN’T mean that I have to be super polite all the time though. I can be as much of a hard kitt as I like without it affecting how generous I am.
Anet never said they wouldn’t have more Powercreep in the Game.
Nightfall & Eye of the North after all, was almost entirely straight up powercreep.
And even Factions before that eventually became massive powercreep over Prophecies.
The only promise they made here, is that you wouldn’t have the typical super expensive / grindy Treadmill you have in most MMO’s for the next level of powercreep where you’re effectively only doing the same sets of “Raids” over and over and over again for them… a lot like Fractals actually which is why I BOYCOTT FotM still.
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In GW1, with Eye of the North, they initially kittened up really bad on this mantra when that expansion first shipped because the racial abilities (Ursan especially) were not only disgustingly Overpowered (other examples: Pain Inverter, By Ural’s Hammer, Technobabble, Echoed Ebon Assassins, I am the Strongest, etc…), they +they also had a very linear vertical progression in their strength as you progressed the Title Rank. But then Linsey… (also the designer of these Ascended Crafting recipes), upon promotion, took it upon herself to smooth out that “powercreep curve” on those titles which brought people with low ranks a lot closer together with the super grinders who had the highest ranks.
Now normally, I’d be raising the red flags harder than anyone else if this whole Ascended business was actualy worse than anything they’ve done in Gw1 that went back on most of Mike O’Brien’s whole Manifesto thing… Bu let’s look at this logically for a second with the info we already have: The biggest single Hurdle here for most people is going to be that Vision Crystal. … which for some reason, #1: you don’t even have to grind for apparently …. no you can just buy it off the TP if someone’s actually willing to sell the ones they’ve made. and #2: The components don’t only just drop from Temple Priests & Dungeons, you can also get those same mats just Pee-Vee-Dooring in WubWub and even the worst players in the game already do that night after night anyway simply by being up earlier/later than anyone else.
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So to wrap this up: It doesn’t have to be a massive grind. If you could get 5 Ectos and 40 Ori ingots several times over to to make a full set of Exotics… then you should in theory be able to get 15 refined ectos per weapon to “vertically progress” your 2 or 3 main DPS weapons… which if you're smart, and not a bad player, will be 66% melee weapons and not 100% ranged weapons
I can’t be nice about this…. if you were planning to make all ranged weapons with your vision crystals, then you’re completely WASTING THEM and you might as well just sell all the ones you make instead and eventually buy that Legendary Kudzu or Bitfrost or w/e isntead b/c the only point of them is to look Fancy and “tag mobs” while contributing jack skritt to the other D.E. participants around you.
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PS: They also never said they wouldn’t “sell power” …. incase you’re one of those people who considers buying gold with Gems and then buying Vision Crystals to be “buying power”. …in Gw1 they also sold power, especially MARKET power by selling additional bank tabs and super customizable Mercenary heroes for Discord Farming. (and yes I still have a wiki journal of an actual Developer admitting exactly that)
The only Event in the entire game that actually impacts people for more than 30 minutes, is now so prone to failure that even “top lel” WvW servers & their guilds can’t beat it consistently without a buttload of pure luck.
Not as long as there’s 20-40 Bots in Cursed Shores on every server now collecting gold to compete directly against the Gem Trade with their 3rd party gold selling.
^Yeah I’m really surprised Krall didn’t seem to get how Asymmetric specializing works here. Then again he might have just been pulling a devil’s advocate
I suggest Anet makes dungeons/fractals drop more Ecto/T6 mats to help balance it out, and it makes them more rewarding at the same time, 2 birds 1 stone anyone?
They don’t need to force more to drop or change drop tables one bit. All they need to do is take the stupid Diminishing Returns back off them.
When I first got my magic find set, I’d rapidly find 3 rares in a short period of time and then 2 more an hour or two later. Now I’m surprised as hell when I even find ONE despite doing nothing but killing mobs for hours and hours on end. The game KNOWS when you’ve gotten X # of rares for that day, and then it proceeds to slap you with DR even if those first rares came from World Boss / Temple chests. The reality is there there’s no shortage of opportunity here, just more timegating mechanics where none were needed.
