Guild Wars 2

The break-down would look completely different if they compared time played instead of Alts-Rolled. ….I personally guarantee most of those rangers never made it past 20, and lots of people are probably going to have a hard time justifying even wasting one of those instant 20 scrolls on them (the ones who got a few)

Then there’s probably another big chunk of them that were all Bots, haha.
(like Xsorus^ just pointed out)

Yargesh.4965:

daimasei.4091:

Anet spit in the face of people like me who can’t keep a char for more than 1 month and then they spit in the face of those who keep all their chars from the beginning -_-

You seriously wrote this? Do you have a clue what you wrote?

I actually agree with it … The first point is a little more difficult to parse, b/c it’s not actually related directly to the Minis but rather rerolling in general…

I guess it depends on what you use your Engineer most for… if it’s for WvW? …then okay maybe consider it… but wait a couple days here to find out what is replacing the MagicFind stat…

alrighty story bro etc…..

Now how about that Ash Legion camp at the Waypoint above Decimus Stones.
Have you ever successfully Defended those flimsy Tents? …. I’ve yet to ever see any group of players pull it off. It always ends the same way nomatter how many level 80’s you have camping the ghost’s spawn points that are like 15ft from the stupid Tents…

CrazyDuck.4610:

Ok so I guess rare/greens are going to sky rocket in price..

Why the hell would they? They’re already so common you can’t give them away as it is.
And the market will NEVER be unsaturated by them, not when they’re the only thing that most people crafting for the first time know they can make. Even level 65 and lower Rares are starting to get saturated come to think of it… you can find some of the cruddiest ones listed for around ~4silv now…

I don’t think it makes sense on any of those three.

last thread about it when the recipe first came out….
seemed like most agreement was on Ele or Guar

Toxity.2547:

Learn to play, don’t get downed in the first place.

Give us back our Monks and ally targeting, and that won’t be a problem…

Since the very beginning, it was 100% Luck/RNG based and none of that has changed.
I don’t see why you needed 5 chain posts for such insubstantial revisionism

Smarter people just took one look at it when it was first announced and said to themselves: “Well that’s just dumb and I don’t need this trinket”. And other smart people who’s greed outpaced their patience just decided they’d flip the TP until everyone else payed for theirs.

Talonblaze.3175:

The transmutation stones aren’t that big of a deal given they drop from dailies

FALLACY ALERT

… Transmutation CRYSTALS which would be the only thing that could be used for Ascended Gear, do not drop in-game on their own or drop so extremely rarely that they’re on par with PreCursors (or maybe even worse in some cases).

I agree with the OP, if Anet’s going to foist the Ascended Race on us then they have to also provide a more reliable way of getting T-Crystals. (preferably by forging T-Stones together which no one uses anyway once all their characters have dinged 80)

Solo.9027:

Crystals are like 50 cents each, just skip adding cheese to your whopper for a couple days.

If it’s not a big deal…
then give me all of yours please. I’ll even get a Pay pal account to hold all of the Cheese you’d be willing to give up assuming you’re not a total hypocrite on this claim…

^Actually, the Silver in every Champ Box adds up faster than Gauntlet farm. Most people can’t Gauntlet, but everyone can follow a Queensdale zerg…

Dench.5968:

There was a post a few weeks ago, very “Baghdad” Bobish from a staffer saying that inflation wasnt going on.

What are you talking about?
… Smith’s got a 1 word “Yes” post where he specifically admitted that they had too much of an open valve on currency flow… (Which is just as likely to be all but negated by the Ascended Weapon cash sink that’s about to hit in a few days). Yeah his “Median” values were a bunch of weasel words, I don’t think anyone honestly bought that dataset, but the actual influx was definitely not being denied…

Disclaimer: And I rarely ever go out of my way to defend any of these devs… so don’t lump me in with the fanboys thanks

I think the OP confused Dungeons with U.W. / FoW. / Urgoz / etc…

It’s not manipulation… there was a few bots always running around the back of Fort Trinity that I can’t seem to find anymore. Supply used to be a LOT higher than this

Tom Gore.4035:

Oh and it’s not profitable to transmute mithril to orichalcum unless you think you are super lucky.

traditionally? …when it was 3s per Ore, and mithril was 40c + …. No of course not.
Now however?? …and don’t even talk about Ectos plz, not after we had a glut of Claws & Fangs selling as low as ~60c. Make lots of BOTH! Ya can’t go wrong right now unless you’re one of those ppl who’s so lazy they won’t even craft bulk rares

I’ve been saying all allong that it should 5g per 100….

Glad to see it finally happened. Maybe now people will finally get real about inflation and stop cherry picking T5’s that are prone to gluts as counter-examples…

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Behellagh.1468:

Wrong. As long as more Gems are bought at the exchange than sold to it, the rate will rise. The only thing an increase in the money supply does is to have more gold available that could be spent buying Gems. However if there isn’t anything a lot of players want with Gems then the exchange rate stays about the same regardless how much more gold is in the active economy.

There’s 1 little monkey wrench in your theory here once everyone starts converting their Gear to Ascendeds …but wants to keep their current skins.

No it really doesn’t but nice try. Two completely different issues there on what Colin is working on, and what Lindsey is working on.

WHY ELSE would they even put that Jumping Boost there in the first place when the entire last 100ft around the other side is completely flat and there’s nothing else to even use that Boost for? (besides hopping up the back side to the finish line)

you have to be practically neck and neck at the end for it to even matter and if you did the entire race before that perfectly then there isn’t going to be anyone within 200ft of you.

But hey if it’s too easy, Anet could always spawn like 100 extra spiders when you go up that way… they’re good at that.

Lighter.5631:

because cof1 is high end dungeon for you i assume

COF’s was the only Explorables I didn’t 100%… infact I’ve only been in path1 once. I was so bored by it I never came back. But thanks for the laugh! …PM me in game if ya wanna Melee Lupi tho, I’ll be glad to come show ya how wrong your assumptions are.

Infact maybe I’ll PM you next time we need a filler?

Dark Knight?… more Joker Back Mountain

i dont habeeb it

….Is this…. still the dungeon forum?? I think I clicked on it but got redirected somewhere else. ….either that or TA is going to get the Detha treatment and F/U’ers will WISH they simply had the gimmicky fast but sometimes completely broken old version back

Bright.9160:

Another thing telling me HotW was kind of rushed out was the fact that there was a huge hole in the wall that let you walk from one path to the other…

Btw, has that been patched yet?

Hey hey hey…. ixnay on the olehay …. That was our Staring-Out-Window you so & so

Serenity.6149:

Your opinion, which I share BTW, is the opposite of the sentiment that Anti was responding to. ilr was speculating about the ability to choose stats that exceed the available stat prefixes.

They’d only exceed current “customization” itself. And even if they don’t do that, it could still be gamble worth taking if some of the “Templates” were in any way different from what’s enforced by the very very very limited Carrion / Valk / Rampager / Knight templates we’re usually confined to.

Wood / Silk? No … Never.
Mithril to Ori ? ….hell yeah, I just converted 8 stacks a few hours ago…

Yah gathering by just getting out and moving around the world is about the only … Abnegation … I still find I can do in this game for hours on end.

TooBz.3065:

Yeah, I don’t think Anet has really thought through how many different weapons and armor people have. I did an unscientific query and it looks like most people have at least 8ish weapons and 4+ armor sets. And that’s just for people who don’t have alts.

Grab your popcorn, this is going to be fun.

I bought a Bag slot just for all the ones I lug around…
I have 2 sets of Swords and Axes just for the Aesthetics …plus the first set provides ton of light in DarkRooms like jumping puzzles… I honestly can’t even DO dark jump puzzles without them b/c I play in Windowed mode which has no working Gamma slider

…then there’s the even bigger nightmare of having to buy a ton more Transmog Crystals so I can keep the Skins I really want on the new higher Stats… (why the KITTEN haven’t they just added a Mystic Forge recipe already to convert your regular excess T-Stones into a T-crystals??? Why did T-Crystals even need to exist in the first place? Talk about a rip off…)

…watch them add a crafting recipe finally and it ends up costing 15 charged quartz, lol.

But yeah they have to kind of limit the quantity of them. And it’s not b/c it’s “too Good”. Plain old Berserkers/Rubies is Too Good. Divinity is just something that too many people THINK is really really good when it’s not. They’d have nothing else to Grind for if they got them all too quickly and then they’d just stop playing before getting experienced enough to learn that it’s actually NOT that good. …yeah, sounds like contorted logic but it’s just the truth about Anet’s Contorted metas…

Everyone knows the real challenge in PvE is how bad everyone else around you is.

Or lately… how badly they’d rather farm than succeed.

Wallach.7291:

because there’s a lot to clear up.

YES

This is all I’m saying. As usual, we only get hypey non-answer answers…
This isn’t because there’s a problem with the Forums and Communication when it comes to Anet. The problem is communication within Anet itself. I’ve watched these CR’s struggle with it for 5 years now. It’s never gotten any better.

We already got one

Power
Precision
Critical

Lol @ ^ people who think Guardians are req’d anymore for Dungeon Speed clear
Go read the actual Subforum for it … no guessing necessary Folks

Nope… this is just like everything else. No one knows the full details until it downloads.
If someone did know for sure, they’d also know what the new Functionality is too.

Carzor Stelatis.9435:

ilr.9675:

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Hey all, no worries, we got you covered.

Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.

For example, if you have an Explorer’s Pearl Staff, you can now double-click it to change it to any other crafting stat.

We will have a blog post about it with more extensive information as well, keep an eye on the website.

So wait… ….WAIT WAIT WAIT…. * urnfff…. think I just dropped a brick here *

On Explorer’s… MF is THE primary stat. Being able to change that stat, means picking whatever PRIMARY STAT on whatever Gear set you want. This is a potential level of PowerCreep that not even Zerker4Lyfe minmaxxers have asked for.

You won’t get to change the primary stat on its own, you’ll get to choose from the existing combinations. So for example on an Explorer’s Staff you don’t get to make it Condition Duration / Power / Precision (because that combination doesn’t exist), you have to choose from one of these:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Explorer%27s#Triple_attribute

You’re not an official source. What the hell do you know about it?
Martin’s post seems pretty clear on this …. double click it, pick another Stat…

This is “new tech” and I’m gonna go ahead and bet all my Vicious Claws on it…
I wasn’t plannin’ on doing anything else with them.

Martin Kerstein.3071:

Hey all, no worries, we got you covered.

Weapons, armor and trinkets with magic find will become account bound, lose their current stats and will gain the ability to be double-clicked to select one of several stat options depending on the item.

For example, if you have an Explorer’s Pearl Staff, you can now double-click it to change it to any other crafting stat.

We will have a blog post about it with more extensive information as well, keep an eye on the website.

So wait… ….WAIT WAIT WAIT…. * urnfff…. think I just dropped a brick here *

On Explorer’s… MF is THE primary stat. Being able to change that stat, means picking whatever PRIMARY STAT on whatever Gear set you want. This is a potential level of PowerCreep that not even Zerker4Lyfe minmaxxers have asked for. Esp if Crit Bonus is one of those selectable stats.

anzenketh.3759:

Zerke.4103:

If it is a broken mechanic then why is it still sticking around? Instead of being on gear it is now just applied to the entire account?

Because that what was broken about it. It took away from actual fighting stats.

The only Fighting Stats all the Know-it-Alls care about is Power Precision Critical.
…THAT’S the set that really needs to be removed from the game for a little while until Anet figures out a way to make DPS not always double as an “Exposure Mitigator”… (in otherwords: DPS = shorter encounter = no need for RESOURCE MANAGEMENT).

Atleast us people running MF gear were facing actual Risk for our Rewards…

So here’s a question for you market Geniuses….

Everytime I’ve found a Rare Greatsword and sold it on the Market, it was 10s over the price of an Ecto. Do you think that has anything to do with the precursor’s mysterious supply rates? There’d have to be SOME kind of correlation for someone or someones to be going through that many of them when they could be crafting more themselves for less upfront investment. What could possibly explain that volume being so high? Some kind of tear in the RNG Mystic Toilet continuum?

Err’yday I’m crystalin….

And people who ain’t mining that Node in their home instance are missin out.
1/2 the time that thing ALSO rolls you a Charged Quartz.

Sheeeeiiiii…. …Do you ever see rich Rosemary or Lemongrass nodes? Do you ever see rich Chocolate nodes or Rich Dill?? They don’t a give a kitten about such hard “Slapping you in a face” disparities in Supply. They’ve been going on since Release and they’ve never done anything to even tweak ’em. Nah they just been making it harder to get that stuff.

Atleast with Ori…. you can just Forge a ton of still super cheap Mithril.
…Oh “but that requires C Dust!” you say… yeah and you can manufacture that too now.
Can I manufacture Chili peppers and Rosemary tho?? ….hell nah. but Ori?? Pfffftt….

HaHa

^ Gosh I wish I could get a straight up and down response like that when I ask the rest of Anet an even simpler question like “Are Vet Subjugators SUPPOSED to be casting 6 super wells at a time directly on a Non-Rezzable NPCs??”… Or when DM attempters are asking “Are all those spiders in TAFU not SUPPOSED to despawn?” …and You guys even get Hard numbers on top… You market guys are so spoiled

want my flippin Jungle Raptor back

More crafting options is ALWAYS a good thing

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Mesket.5728:

Sorry, just read this reply. No, skipping is very, VERY easy. There is no skill in pressing swiftness and the W key. Specially with a thief or Mesmer in the party.

Would you like to come do Arah with us some time? I’d be mildly impressed if you didn’t go down once

Yeah I’d LOVE to see this, that is if y’all need someone to Record it… I always get most of the Trash-Aggro myself in P1/P2 when running and I get downed surprisingly often the FIRST time through while trying to make sure everyone else makes it in one piece.

And I used to run Droknar’s / Granite Cit / Marhan’s & And also Shards of Orr / RataSum taxi… It’s nothing like COF / SE. There’s more to it than just chaining skills & holding forward.

Lol…

I’d say mine varies a good 5 points depending on whether I’ve had my ADHD meds or not

Farzo.8410:

The Mexican Cookie.3690:

Good players use good builds. Good builds (for dungeons) = no useless stats = no toughness/vitality/healing power.

Now let’s wait for someone to take the bait.

I hear there’s lots more bait to watch if you step into TA and go forward and up…

Be sure to bring a max range LB … and a bear…

Okay this is what they SHOULD have done instead:
Let us “Mystic Forge” 4 Jennahs together to get one of these new Mini-Packs free….
Then watch the datamining on how many people chose that option and adjust next-year’s Birthday gifting accordingly. ….then it would be majority rule instead of Forum Wars 2 deciding it. Fair??

Gandarel.5091:

Not just that they didn’t give us random minis and we got 8 Jennahs, but meanwhile, they add 42 new minipets to the gemstore.

I don’t really see these two as being connected.
I think the main issue is still: Who the KITTEN wanted 5-8 of the exact same minis of a total Killjoy (ruining all the great fighting between Charr & Humans) who also caused Snaff’s death by being a stupid helpless “Damsel in Distress” Trope…

People who read the first book, and have their heads screwed on right? …HATE HER.
…even more than they hate Trehearne…

And let’s go back to the Charr & Humans again… There was never any other rivalry this good in Tyria’s history. Nothing else compares. Not between the Lupicii and the Dragons … Not between the Forgotten/Dwarves and the Dragon’s Generals, not even the Seers and Mursaat measure up, and they were the races that created the frikkin Bloodstone and opened the way to the Rift in the first place… All of the great Cataclysms, centered around this rivalry. It needs to come back, even if only for like 1 year like that Second Movie in a Trilogy where everything goes to hell and everyone has to deal with real adversity and despair for a little while… That’s what the essence of Guildwars is… not this Shiny Camelot where everyone’s united behind some boring Plant guy and a “little miss perfect” Single-White-Matriarch plus easy-farm Steampunk Pirates on the side… Oh and …Also … Palawa Joko … Need him back too, just b/c it’s about time we got some undead up in here with some actual Character and good dialogue…

But yeah…
I don’t even identify as a Charr or a Human. My two mains in the first game weren’t thematically Humans either. Yet I would join the separatists & renegade’s efforts in a heartbeat if this game had real depth and had let us choose that path instead of the Orders…

Well this got Derailed in record time…

No wait, that would imply that it actually had a Coherent starting point.

Forget the person who’s Downed ….

What’s broken about Stealth Stomping is it also prevents your target’s Allies from interrupting you as well. I’ve tried dozens of times to get someone back up when a Thief or Mez is lingering just out of cleave range. Nothing stops them. You’ve only got a few seconds to get your ally back up and not even 1 second to interrupt the actual stomp. Haven’t been able to save 1 single person when the stomper is Stealthed. Is this a case where the only possible solution is to lay down stealth traps before you attempt to Rez?

It’s the most cowardly tactic I’ve ever seen in WvW, …and I’ve watched whole teams of speed hacking IOP gankers back when those were a thing….

It’s a really simple and FAIR fix: You start the stomp animation??… You instantly lose stealth and stability. It’s that simple. A little Risk with your reward just like how every other encounter is designed.

Not seeing a huge increase in L00t here.

Just a ton more Masterworks that get merched and a bunch more silver that just shifts inflation higher. I’ve actaully been getting a lot less Charged Cores than I used to months back. And getting less Rares too … which means having less ectos to combine with Obbies for T6’s.

Where’s this l00t the OP is talking about?

gearcheck?

why not P1 also? ….havin too much trouble keepig the scavvies off hodgs?

We couldn’t run all of them b/c Anet never fixed the stalled out Subs on our server that were supposed to be going to Brassclaw (after multiple reports). And I also did it on Borliss, where they actually had all 3 forces arrive together but 1 single Vet still killed 75% of the Pact Redshirts in a single horn Blow so it doesn’t matter. ….I’ve got video of that too if you don’t believe it.

An Anet Dev actually clarified the point on Channeling champion Wraiths.
….said that they lose a stack of Defiance per tick as they’re channeling.
So the longer they channel, the eaiser they become to interrupt.

It’s a 3 point difference per piece….

It actually makes some builds weaker due to lack of customization, something called “Unique” item class, and Infusions in general just being total crap.

What a ridiculous thing to feel left out on. Where you really got left behind was, on your Finances. The inflation has just gone hog wild since this spring. (hope ya bought tons of gems before you took that break)

On a scale of 1 to 10 for importance of things they need to make a statement on….

I’d rate this a 2 :p