NSP just failed it twice in a row b/c it seems like there’s a lot more of them now.
More importantly, What exactly does Anet expect us to do to stop them?
Even when they DO render for us, they just look like every other mobs so it’s impossible to pick them out of the crowds in these ambushes and so targeting & CC’ing them in time takes an act of the Gods… ShadowStepping Nobles were bad enough.
So really, what are we expected to do here when they’re already scripted to run right past us human players, and they run just as fast as every other unusually quick undead soldier? Is it intended behavior for them 1-shot the entire Pact all at once??
…is all just the same stuff we unlock from heart vendors?
There’s nothing at all to deal with the Gluts /Vs./ Shortages of Herbs in general like there is with all these other Crafting Commons *(leather, silk, etc…) ???
I have to ask B/c I see Dill dropping in price anyway…. someone care to explain?
Evasive Purity: This trait will now functions as expected.
Well, what did you expect?
Well, I expected some semblance of proper Grammar atleast…
I mean what does it say when about them, when 90% of the notes are all cash shop items in perfect prose while they don’t even bother to get all 3 ducks in the same row for this class’ notes? …
This is even sadder… but yeah I have to agree with it given current trends.
Especially after I just found a way to get ALL of my Boon-duration Bonuses over 50% (which is something I never found a way to do with my Dervish’s enchantments in the First game without COMPLETELY neutering it in every other way) and also extended my 10 lousy seconds of Swiftness from Nature’s voice into a full 17 seconds… I honestly expected to get about 2 weeks of enjoyment out of it before that’s stripped away just like everything else that’s ever been creative or viable about this class.
Too bad there’s still a big Cast-Animation & delay on “Guard” while no other shouts in the game have a Cast delay b/c shouts have NEVER had delays. WTH is that about?? It’s literally the SHORTEST line that any class ever shouts
TBH… I’m honestly getting really sick of these suggestions that marginalize the pets down to being a mascot or non-combat mini-pet at best. Especially these ones that keep demanding we do more damage universally compared to our pets. You know people will still complain nomatter what, right? Even 10% won’t be overlooked.
I think we just need a PvE skill split like we got in Gw1 that actually lets us use or atleast benefit from our Pets all the time in PvE. And it has to be something that stacks, and is based on combat conditions (read: Player skill curve & pet choice). Not just blanket buffs to Ranger DPS that make Bears the only thing worth running, EVER. For example, How does your suggestion in any way bring Eagles & Cats back into PvE?
Think you’re just wasting your time Aden… I’m not seeing any signs here these guys are listening or even have the capability to. The dungeon forum is usually just as bad though when it comes to Lupicus. It’s a confusing fight in general where the most important mechanics of it (and illusions of where “safety” actually is) are usually the last thing anyone talks about b/c they’d rather stroke their own egos first.
fact is, that a few days before a new patch the first items start to rise and that are often the important ones with the most profit.
ouh, for sure, it´s rng. ( rng has nothing to do with that)
That’s got any number of very likely explanations… the most obvious ones being the Power Gamers in the Guilds of Anet designer’s who’ve always gotten little perks here and there. … and in a few cases.. just dumb luck even.
Try to explain why I bought 1000 saffron 2 or 3 days before the StarCake recipe was introduced. B/c I sure can’t, I never buy anything in any kind of volume. I just remember staring at one of the latest recipes they’d added with the sentinel stuff and suddenly there was pattern while it was like someone was poking my motivation with a sharp stick from another dimension; so I just did it.
Probably still less than what people can make farming CoF …
OH SNAP
…but only b/c ppl in the media are basically all thumbs at everything.
How many people remember watching the first “Hands on Combat” videos of all these bads in the media and it was literally NOTHING close to how most of us even played Gw1 where you’re SUPPOSED to stand still most of the time unless you’re herding stuff up to be nuked. I remember that stuff being so painful to watch….
What makes anyone think most media’zens/bloggers have that hardcore edge to execute properly on said knowledge? B/c most of it is STILL always going to be about timing & coordination. And if their combat mouse-to-skill bar 1 1 1 2 1 1’ing was any indicator… then I ain’t even gotta finish this sentence
It’s okay this living content crap can be completed in an hour with your eyes closed and serves no real purpose to the greater good or progressing/enriching the gameplay of GW2 anyways.
….especially (as in: lacking) the lore & personal storyline…
How do you spoil something that HAS NO PLOT to begin with?
If Pets gained the Stats ie: Shared the gear stats of their masters… Then Divinity would definitely be a good set for them(“Rangers”) as they’re pretty much Doomed to forever be mediocre Generalists anyway….
Congrats. Just wonder how long it would take 4R/1M to do this.
Well since Time Warp supposedly helps rangers even more than warriors, I’d say something in the ballpark of 10 seconds.
What really keeps haunting me about this one… shouldn’t even be their raw DPS. Shouldn’t it be the additional PROJECTILES (for all the extra pets?) that he’d put out??
I don’t even know if they’re all under the same physics either, but I’m curious as hell if that’s atleast a possibility…
So stop playing your ranger and start playing your ele more. You’re getting kicked because you’re a ranger and rangers suck. Do you seriously not have an issue with being a burden to the team? When did people in mmo’s stop caring about being an asset to their team?
Any exceptional player can carry a team on any class….
I’m surprised this even has to be mentioned in a game so based on Timing.
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Though I’ll agree, Rangers have a strong negative reputation for having the worst players due to the numbers of bugs and shortcomings they have to face. Assuming they’re ever skill split for PvE however, you’ll suddenly see the opposite reaction where ppl would start saying they’re TOO good b/c … well… that’s what happens when you’re used to running Marathons with training weights still attached (and they’re suddenly released).
I’ll be honest… Mine hasn’t been kicked from any Pugs yet.
Then again I don’t farm, & I never let my pet wander off on its own.
Tanking a Boss in melee & never dying is also a good way to show ppl you mean business…
Most of these CoF p1 war are alts that are almost never used anywhere else used by people who have no idea you can run a zerk group in other dungeons since said farming groups don’t even know how to dodge
Definitely agree with this…
And when I DO see ppl like that in other dungeons in their COF zerk gear… they’re usually the ones I’m rezzing :p
Oh, I don’t really use the TP as a money maker, aside from using it to sell loot at a higher price than I’d get at the vendor for it. But observing how people make decisions to buy and sell and understanding the psychology behind it all is quite fascinating.
I’m Sad… I was looking forward to buying a bunch more Zhaitaffies for 5c each today so I could trade them all in for the Food instead…
Yeah… I shoulda known better that waiting till the last day would be atleast 1 day too late. No biggey tho I guess, I’m sitting on 1k coffers that I didn’t even buy (they just wouldn’t quit dropping!)
(continuing) ….Those are pretty decent values for the most part, but I feel that Thyme and Black Peps could just be removed from that set of nodes entirely. I also think it would be a good idea if they just added a “Seedy Herb” node to Southsun that was basically nothing but Dill b/c AFAIK, it’s only other use is in that Tropical dressing …. and also b/c let’s be honest, Southsun is a hellhole. It’s a scarier place to newbies than the Jade Sea was. It’s basically an alien world /w incredibly O^P Mobs that makes Orr look comforting…
you only had 40? …pfft I get an average of 80 of them in one night…
Also might be of interest to people… I put together a rough snapshot sample of the Herb node “drop table” (i guess you’d call it?) in all patches I found Adjacent to "the Brand’ which is BTW, the most efficient possible way to get them b/c Mature & Verdent nodes always yield too much Mint & Terragon instead. (seriously, who wants that stuf?? They need to either tweak those value or add more recipes that use that crap up like they did with Saffron which I also cashed in on big time.)
It can’t really be a Build that relies on Minions/Turrets/Clones.
And It can’t be a class that relies on Spike damage from the Shadows/Distance.
I’m guessing that really only leaves Guar/War/Ele :\
And even then, the actual pay-off is no where near their current market value…
They’re basically a crutch for lazy folks who can’t be arsed to switch into a second armor-set when they need to change specialties. And financially, it’s more cost effective to do that anyway even if you have to buy another bag slot just to do it…
You too can be invited to this test krewe. Be a positive, non-trolling member of the community and created objective, constructive and non-trolling threads. Keep your head cool at all times in the forums and in-game. One day you might get a PM with attached Non Disclosure Agreement inviting you to the Test Krewe.
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Also a bad philosophy in General and the main reason things are so bugged and exploitable still. IoW: If all you do is invite the sheep/mice of the game, all you’ll get is meager casual testing and meek feedback at best. Anet’s problem since 2005 has always been that’s it AFRAID to work with a team of Rivals. And they’ve always built everything around Cronyism. Once it even got them in hot water over a scandal involving preferential treatment to non-employees in their shiverpeak themed Guild. It wasn’t quite CCP-tier of corruption… but their history shows they have no respect for people who think differently from them and they avoid as much as they can; anyone who doesn’t suck up to them all the time and tell them everything’s sunshine & lemondrops. (this also caused a huge falling out between them and Guru — which I was actually relieved by to be honest, but I digress).
Though there’s also the problem highlighted by past Test Krewe members who eventually quit from the first one they built. Infact It just so happened to be the main reason I DIDN’T join the Krewe when I had the opportunity: IE: that they would only use them for a very narrow line of bug-catching (mostly UI/graphic) and ignore them completely on major exploits and game-breaking imbalances on skill functions & Utility.
YOU CAN’T IGNORE TESTERS ON BALANCE/ABUSE ISSUES and still call it “Testing”.
That alone is a huge black eye for the entire industry when it comes to Testing.
The manpower to actually deal with it is there. They’re just not listening.
Can’t just be random Minis. Needs to be something more interesting now b/c they screwed over their own “Mini economy” by making them Cash Shop RNG drops in this game.
Never had a problem… infact I can reach the goggles in the Aether JP now on every race from Asura up to Norn & Charr. …sometimes in 2 falls or less.
Then again… I really cut my peripheral-management teeth in PC gaming on Mechwarrior2 & Quake Mods that had like 8 extra weapons & multifunctions tacked on. Plus I use a 9-button mouse, and a Programmable Nostromo Pad (with whatever tier of Macros Gaile has told us in the past was acceptable without constituting botting) …so I’m probably off towards one of the more extreme ends in this spectrum
Guardian: OMG Arenanet hates us, scepter is too slow.
Ranger: OMG Arenanet hates us, they buffed our bows and gave us 150 bonus precision for self and the whole group that brings us and now I iz confuzeled.
Thief: OMG Arenanet hates us, we can’t perma-stealth if we attack.
Engineer: OMG Arenanet hates us, we can’t… um… (what? They can do everything).
Elementalist: OMG Arenanet hates us, we can’t weapon swap in combat.
Necromancer: OMG Arenanet hates us, we can’t sustain in PvP.
Mesmer: OMG Arenanet hates us, we can’t use torment at will and shatter takes a millisecond longer now.
Wow… worst post in this thread so far. With the exception of Warrior, I don’t think any of those apply or even begin to constitute an understanding of their issues. There’s a fine art to Hyperbole. What you did was just throw the paint can at it.
YES, this is definitely something that needs to be separated as a Category from regular PvE b/c the only place it becomes a trial of any kind is in Orr. It should just be called solo-PvE or “Exploring” because it didn’t exist in Gw1 towards mid-game & late game unless ya had one of the broken classes that could just permanently ignore all Mob Spells while taking on groups intended for 6-8 players to be fighting at once. PvE has always been a Team activity, and when one class in particular is getting kicked out of the activities that require a Team… it’s pretty clear that it’s not Ele’s. Ele’s were never kicked out of PvE teams in GW1 either, they were just told to run Ether Renewel instead and be a Bond Monk :p
PvP warriors are shaking their heads at every other profession who thinks they’re in a bad state.
Some of us Non-Warriors know that….
But considering you’re in a format that’s already a ghost town, it’s hard to care.
Ele’s had a similar problem in Codex… Guess how many people cared.
To be fair though… for WvW atleast, their Kill shots were definitely over-nerfed in Beta.
Enough snipers up on a Wall should be something a Zerg fears… not just a heavy armor Decoration they’re allowed to get close enough towards to ping their stupid Nuke circles over
A necro might be able to trait the werewolf’s lifesteal and fear… should work.
I’m pure Blood & Daggers nec and see no point…
Not once you’ve unlocked Dhuum … er I mean Lich :p
But speaking of Wraiths… that’s the only use @ endgame I’ve found for Were…
Interrupting the champ’s Transfer when escorting Jonez…
(usaully b/c of other players not timing the Unshakable un-stacks properly)
And again if the Q1 2013 sales were from a standard $15 a month subscription MMO, we’re would be looking at an MMO with over 1/2 million players. There are very few that have reached those numbers. EVE just recently did.
That’s not a proper chart you attached. Lineage games had sevral Million players each.
GW2 sold 3 million copies its first year here.
This is that stupidly “Misguided” misuse of Dill that Smith was talking about last Month.
It’s the whole reason I spend 2 hours every day farming dill out in the plateaus of <<hahaha like I’m gonna tell you — /redacted>>
If they were smart, they’d just let us Salvage food by picking the little bits of stuff back out that we either want or don’t want …. I do it all the time in real life!
(…then I mail it to starving chinese b/c my parents were big on guilt trips)
The problem with ANY pet against Lupicus is the exact same problem they also have against Molradovich… Where each additional pet, also causes additional Bolts & AOE’s (& maybe even more grubs between stage 1 & 2??)
The Devs clearly didn’t think this one through either…
This is in reference to things like taking The Howling King in AC up the stairs to the gap and range killing him down while bypassing all of his fight mechanics among other encounters where you can be 100% safe from the boss while successfully killing them.
What “mechanics”???
It spawns 5 Scavengers now and most classes don’t have perma Stability nor does “stun breakers” get you out of it. Don’t blame the community for this one. This is 100% the Dev’s faults for not PvE splitting Stability to more PvE skills for more classes in PvE while drowning the Dungeons in Pull & Knock down causing Mobs.
Also for not giving us in-game Teamspeak so we can atleast yell “GET THIS THING OFFA ME” the instant one lands on us….
That was the entire point of my post pointing out the coding inconsistency here…
And don’t keep talking about this come monday plz…
I only brought it up on the weekend for a reason
Is this another one of those threads where people only look at the front-loaded Stats on the Ascended items and then assume what gets put into them is just as good??
HAHA … people who fall for that stuff always give me a good laugh.
Good trolling Anet, probably your best L00t grind troll since the Bone Dragon Staff..
Don’t just roll a ranger next or you’ll wanna quit again instantly.
Do one of the soldiers instead, use Axes or a Greatsword, be invited to dungeons constantly even though you don’t anything besides hit the 2 button & then and maybe put down a Banner or Reflect shield every now and then … also get much better looking Armor too.
disclaimer: Pants not included … you’ll have to transmute all your stupid pants
First Character I rolled. We all knew it was coming on the Guru forums….
We talked about it constantly.
We are the PC dungeonmaster race, and the only class that got NO NERFS in the last patch.
Infact they actually buffed our Smiting if you can believe it…
I have yet to see many rangers who aren’t always running atleast 2 of the Signets, most of the time.
That signals a huge problem…. especially with pet survivability in DubVee & PvE.
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I don’t actually run Sig of the Hunt on mine anymore though.
NaturesVoice chained by Guard = permaswift so atleast there’s evidence that some improvement is starting to happen here… (but we won’t get what we really need until BeastMastery itself is skill-split from sPvP finally)
Something about killing a Slave Driver… …then a bunch of Acolytes & some weapon.
…not sure where it begins though, all I know is you can /AFK most of the fights.
And then it begins again instantly, no waiting 30 minutes like most farm events
I think they simply need to scale this event down, so that it is doable by smaller populations of players. The rewards for the event are decent, but the difficulty is out of balance right now.
Events were supposed to always Scale up…
“UP”…
not be so ridiculous to begin with that you’d even have to mention something like that
Shadow Behemouth, Jungle Wurm, Shatterer & Maw & probably whatever else…. really aren’t scaling right OTOH and so they’re on the other extreme of cheapening Rares a bit too much. (it’s probably the only thing keeping COF’s inflationary effects in check)
So either way… Anet needs to work on its Scaling a bit more here…
(And force the Zerg to actually TeamSplit & deal with the Minions as well like they have to do against Jormag & preist of Lyssa)
…In a couple ways it’s harder than Gw1, (jumping… lunging over gaps, etc…)
…in other ways, a lot easier… (everything is a projectile … no ice imp MindFreeze BS)
The suppression is annoying, but areas you want to run through aren’t as cluttered with as many trash mobs as in Gw1 so it feels more free and you get to enjoy the scenery and open space feeling a lot more.
that may be true, any sweeping changes been made since release? i know 1 problem this game had was “lack of end game” is this still true?
have classes changed quite a bit? or are they mostly the same?
Lots of classes only got nerfed, based on a PvP format almost no one plays…
& Farming COF is currently your “End Game” (but only if you’re a Warrior/Mesmer).
