Pure dedicated healers are not viable. The trinity in this game is more tank/dps/support. Support can come in throwing down CC conditions or boons to reduce damage and increase crit.
Skills that heal other players in this game aren’t targeted and are usually an AOE of some sort. The amount they heal are usually relatively small to top up their hp bar or allow them to survive an extra hit while they run away and heal themselves. That’s just for nuke heals. Regen boon heals are incredibly small. Even if you had something like 2000 healing power, the regen is 380hp/sec while you will usually be taking damage in the thousands per hit. Since everything is cooldown based you won’t have enough healing skills to keep people alive. Each player has to rely mainly on dodging and their self heal skill to stay alive. Anything you add is just an extra bandaid.
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Have I ever trusted someone who appeared to be a straight up person? Of course.
Would I trust someone I have never met or seen in real life who is asking for money? No.
If you didn’t do enough damage to the veteran karka, then you aren’t eligible for loot. The veteran karka always guarantees a karka shell. It is possible when you died, the veteran reset before the zerg arrived and killed it.
Let’s cool it with the insults. I made this thread for constructive discussion.
I didn’t mean to insult anyone. I also didn’t mean to say that those who didn’t realise that they should talk to Kiel are in some way stupid. I only believe that they didn’t follow the story very concentrated. It happens to me too, in fact I can be scatterbrained like the best of us.
But I also think that there shouldn’t be a colored marker on the map for every step of the story. Some things should be left to be figured out. And for those who don’t want that, the guide should explain everything.
I’m very much in favor of figuring things out by yourself. I’ve been making threads about getting rid of achievement “quest” checklist. If I had it my way, I would have simply added the Living Story stuff with no mention of it in patch notes. Let the players explore and figure out everything on their own. Let the players spread the word of new events occurring in game rather than the developers. Players will make guides and youtube videos regardless. But this isn’t my game and I know players like us who hate handholding are in the minority and not who ANet is trying to appeal to. So if they are going to do it, they might as well do a good job of it.
It’s why I liked the super adventure box so much. There wasn’t any handholding(besides the infantile mode) and you had to explore the zones to find all the baubles and hidden areas. ANet put it out there and said have fun.
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I want to be able to save build templates, but I don’t want to be able to switch anywhere. At least it’s not as bad as star trek online where they charge $5 worth of Zen(400 gems) to respec each time.
I haven’t bothered to finish my personal story yet and that UI notification on the top right corner never goes away. Now that Living Stories are the new content for us to run through, I would like to be able to toggle between tracking the Personal Story or Living Story quests like how the achievements are now. This will cut down on the clutter I have on my UI now with both personal and living story notifications.
Let’s cool it with the insults. I made this thread for constructive discussion.
I noticed in yesterday’s patch they added an indicator in the Island Control meta info about whether the Karka Queen is ready to spawn or not. I think they can make a minor change by making Inspector Kiel do an emote like waving at you to come over similar to other event NPCs when they want you to talk to them.
As long as you killed the Karka Queen and finished the story instance by loading contracts on the boat, then you should be all set until Dragon Bash starts on June 11th.
Crabtacular is the only actual crab toss achievement on the list. The rest are simply completed by playing a lot.
The wiki is the most appropriate place to go read up on past events. What other MMOs have this ingame lexicon of everything you need to know from past events without going outside of the game itself?
WoW runs off of lore from all the previous Warcraft games. Even after playing all of them growing up and reading the lore in the manuals, the story is still confusing unless you read all the info they post on their website regarding background stories.
SWTOR essentially assumes you have watched the Star Wars movies and the entire setting is based off of KOTOR games. I have no idea who any of the major characters that show up are since I didn’t play them. I had to read up on the Star Wars wiki and website info to understand the context.
Another suggestion is to have them treat only the story elements of the living story like they do with the personal story. There will be the story icon that shows on the map where to go. As you progress, the icon goes to the next step. Once you’re done with what is available, the living story section at the top right of the screen disappears until the next batch of story events are implemented.
They can also add a narrative in the menu under the one for personal story that details/recaps the events for the living story. People then won’t have to go to the wiki unless they want specific details.
That’s a good idea. Put those green story icons over the heads of NPCs.
Where was I whining? I stated that I followed the story and kept up to date. I have no problem with them doing this. I like the fact that you have to figure things out by yourself. I’m pointing out that it’s not clear that you could talk to her for the instance.
As for that line of dialogue:
Inspector Ellen Kiel: I’m going to fix this. All I need are reinforcements…and as much black powder as I can get.
How do we know it doesn’t take place in Lion’s Arch harbor on the 11th as an epilogue instance where we are waiting for the ship to arrive with Kiel and it blows up before reaching port?
Things I liked:
-plenty of events and activities to keep the zone populated
-challenging mobs that scaled well to the number of players
-good amount of loot drops in the form of exotic accessories/minis/crates
-story mode dungeon that unlocks group dungeon
-living story tie-in to last chapter and leads to next one
Things I didn’t like:
-presentation of story was not done well
-achievement log acting as a quest log
-achievement log spoils the ending
Suggestions:
-Use more story instances. There could have been a story instance where you follow Inspector Kiel on a patrol of the island to investigate the crazed wildlife, question settlers, and put down rioters.
-Short ingame cinematic to introduce the event when first talking to Inspector Kiel and another one when entering the story dungeon to introduce the villain
-Use heart NPCs to guide players rather than the achievement log. An example would be to have Researcher Levvi give you the collector and collect 10 samples to finish the heart. When you do, they offer the flower backpiece for sale. Remove all the sample achievements and let players explore the zone to find it on their own with the collector. Then you can simplify the log by having a single achievement for going out of your way to find all 11. Whether or not you tell people where things are, they will either look at a guide or ask other players if they don’t know.
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But with no mention in the letter that we should talk to Kiel, one could mistaken it for an epilogue event like the Rallying Flame achievement that took place at the very end of F&F. He would have logged in on or after the 11th and saw that Dragon Bash had begun and missed out.
While playing this event last night in an overflow server, a few players had come telling us that the queen had not spawned for 45-60 minutes on a particular server. We had spent roughly 25-30 minutes holding the settlements down, but the Queen did eventually show up. It does seem like something may be broken.
When I am in the overflow servers, the Island Control UI notification disappears. The events on the island are still running and the queen will spawn.
The letter only talks about protecting the settlements from wildlife. I’ve been following the story and reading memos/talking to NPCs. I’ve got time to figure things out and read up on what to do, but my friend who can only log on once a week doesn’t. The lore and rewards are not important to him. He just wants to log in to see what’s new and be pointed in the direction to do new things.
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That yellow icon has always been there since the beginning.
Other than the guide to Southsun event on the official site, there’s no ingame mention that you need to talk to Inspector Kiel to finish this achievement. I browse these forums and keep up to date on event info and I stumbled on this by randomly because I like talking to NPCs for new dialogue.
I do like achievements that require you to do some exploration rather than have it pointed out to you. For example, I would have preferred the collection achievements to just tell you there’s 11 and not where they are, but most would probably disagree with me.I believe ANet needs to put that info in the UI notification or indicate it in the letter(which no one seems to read anyway) for players that aren’t aware.
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It’s never about persuading those that are already convinced about what they believe in, it’s about providing a counter argument to those that haven’t so that they can see both sides and decide for themselves.
Why would scaling not make sense? Because a level 42 has an easier time surviving than a level 22 character in a level 80 zone? Your level 42 character has all of his skill slots unlocked and more traits at his disposal. Southsun is challenging to all levels, even at 80.
It’s a bug. Skills that convert conditions to something else are not working on burning pitch. I suspect that because it is named differently, the skills were not updated to know how to convert this condition even though it is a burn.
I don’t see anything wrong with flipping. If you have the money to blow on buying the items and then even more gold to relist them at a much higher price above buy offers then go right ahead. You are just asking to get undercut by somebody with a more reasonable selling price and your items will just sit there unsold. Speculation is just that, speculation. It’s a risky business with a high payoff if it works, otherwise you are sitting on unsold merchandise and the TP was able to siphon off some of your gold in the process.
Server populations are based on player accounts on that server and not current online populations. There are no wait times to log into the server. However, each zone is separate from each other so if a zone gets full on a server, you will load into a overflow zone and play with other players thrown into the overflow. This overflow zone is exactly the same as the normal one. When you are in the overflow, you are put into a queue to load back into your server and a pop up will show when you can.
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How much money do you have at the moment?
There is a 5% listing fee that you pay up front when you sell stuff on the trading post and another 10% is taken out from your profits after the sale is successful.
Supply is infinite. When players convert gold to gem, rate goes up. When players convert gems->gold, rate goes down. Right now, players are buying gems with gold to get new gem store items. At the same time, players that buy gems with real money are also using it to buy gem store items and don’t have a need to convert their gems to gold. With more gems being bought with gold than gems being converted to gold, the rate will go up. After a few weeks with no new items, the exchange rate will go down a bit as the rate of players doing gold→gems slows down and there are more players doing gems→gold.
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The extra bit of healing that you are getting comes from WvW bonuses. They affect everyone on the server.
They treat the turret like pets from other classes. I only play engie so I don’t really know how the other classes worked in terms of pet cooldowns. Looking at the necro and the ranger on the wiki, it seems their cooldowns to resummon only start after they die. I think this is a mistake to treat the turret as one because the turrets effectiveness is completely negated by moving out of its range unlike pets who can move.
I don’t know how to describe the engie gameplay because there isn’t a similar class in other games such as rangers or thieves. I can agree that you will always be pressing a lot of buttons as you swap back and forth on your kits. It feels more action packed.
The same thing happens with Elixir C on engineers. I believe that these conversion skills have a table that links which conditions have a chance to convert to whatever boons. Since this burning condition is named differently, the devs haven’t updated the table.
I think the big thing about these minis is that even though they are time limited, they are not soulbound on use or pickup. I picked up mine on the first day and enjoy having it out in Southsun, but if I ever get bored I can sell it anytime for a Kasmeer.
The animation only goes off when it actually harvests an item. The mine pick animation hits the node 4 times and gathers 3 times. You are stuck there long enough to see the spout because you stay to mine all 3 times. The sickle only gathers once and you run off because you have no reason to stay unless you can gather more than once. There is nothing wrong with it. The old sickle animation that everyone complained about forced you to stay in the animation after you gathered the item so you saw the spout.
Why would they need to scale gem prices based on TP prices? That allows players to control the prices of everything in the gem store. Everyone would just price stuff at the minimum selling price to exploit this. Minimum selling prices are set by ANet in their vendor selling prices. They are set pretty low for all items to allow players the widest range of prices to set. To stop this exploit, they would have to raise vendor selling prices to something a lot higher and would destroy the TP.
I like to give my character roles other than DPS. It’s not like I’m not attacking the enemies when in parties, but I’m equally focused on supporting with heals and boons.
I would like to know what you think is your Profession’s strong points when it comes to support.
Let me start with my Engineer:
I believe that the Engineers are the closest thing to a true Healer!
Almost all of it’s healing skills can support allies one way or another (with the Elixir H being the most selfish, giving only a random defensive boon when thrown).
The Med kit drops bandages that can be picked by anyone, and comes with a weak heal for me in the tool belt.
The Healing Turret heals me half of a normal healing skill when deployed, cast regeneration to a gigantic radius, and when overcharged it gives everyone half a heal while removing 1 condition. When picked up, it has only 15 sec cooldown, and I can cast regeneration around me.
The Elixir gun has a small healing skill by it self, and it’s belt skill cast regeneration around me, despite not being considered a healing skill.
Finally my Elite supply drop comes with a healing turret and bandages.Engineers also have other cool support skills like setting barriers, removing conditions, and giving the occasional boon, but none of them is as strong as our heal.
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What’s your profession’s strong support points?
I’m an engie too and the healing turret overcharge now cures 2 conditions. We also have a trait to make our bombs heal.
Not in the game yet, but most players use gw2lfg.com
You can browse for players looking for a specific dungeon or other general stuff.
There is no cooldown. But you have to do a certain amount of damage on the champ in order to get credit for the chest. There is also a certain amount of damage needed to get credit for looting the champ as well.
If you’re late to the event and come in at the end trying to hit it for credit, you will sometimes get nothing even if you get a gold medal on the event.
Fire – Water …
The logging axe shall be air. Lightning cutting down the tree on the final strike.
I’d like to see a lightning bolt hit the tree when the log falls.
I don’t see a problem with them adding a new tier of mats in any possible future expansion. The current unlimited gathering tools say that they are equivalent to ori tools. Any new level of mats will not diminish the benefits that I bought it for such as a different animation, savings on bag space, and worrying about how many uses are left.
It’s like buying a weapon skin from the gem shop and then they release a cooler looking skin. The enjoyment I get from one skin doesn’t diminish the enjoyment of the other.
The wiki explains all this.
They are a rare random drop off of monsters in Southsun. Not inside Southsun crates.
There is an event in that cave with the demolitionist that will spawn karka. With so many players akitteng in the event area, the karka will get uplevelled and their spawn rates will increase.
New players need to get bigger bags. They don’t need more bag slots.
Don’t give up. I think you are simply in the wrong spot and trying to collect a sample you have already collected.
Here’s the map location, it’s on the north side of the island and not inside a cave. It is near the floating rock jumping puzzle and the cave entrance to the new dungeon that was added:
http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gw2_Southsun_vent_sample_collection_1-1024x576.jpg
Here’s where it is, but the new patch has reduced the steam so that the steam no longer hides it:
You are just in the wrong spot. The patch yesterday has reduced the steam hiding the vent sample. It’s in the area with the floating rock jumping puzzle. If you’re heading to the new instance, it is near that but a little further west.
Here’s the map location:
http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gw2_Southsun_vent_sample_collection_1-150x150.jpg
Here’s the vent sample hidden inside the steam:
http://gw2.mmorpg-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Gw2_Southsun_vent_sample_collection_3-1024x576.jpg
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I started a thread before about how they should stop relying on the achievement screen as a “quest log” for the living story. It’s simply a list of things to do, most can be condensed, gives players no context to their activities, plus it spoils the ending. They should have made Researcher Levvi into a Heart NPC that tells you to collect samples and after you do, she becomes a karma vendor with new dialogue options and sells you the flower backpiece that she was able to construct from the samples. Inspector Kiel’s deputy could have also been a Heart NPC that was tied to the 25 achievements. He would tell you to patrol the island(visit all the settlements), talk to guest/read memos, keep the peace(doing events with supporter buffs). After you finish all the hearts(essentially it is just the 25 achievements in heart form), you talk to Inspector Kiel and she’ll reward you with something the Lionguard have recovered from fighting karka on the island which is the tentacle backpiece.
I’ve run it a few times and it’s just been a dps burn without any real threat. I run away from the moving electric orbs and when he puts a shield up, kite into any green mine. Someone was complaining about some deadly stacking DoT that killed them in seconds, but so far I haven’t noticed it since the boss dies so fast.
On my first run, I didn’t do any reading up on it beforehand and just talked to the NPCs in the instance. The whole reason they put a bunch mines in front of you before the boss fight was to practice detecting the mines and disarming them. When I started the fight, I realized I was doing no damage and picked up a mine detector nearby to disarm and kite him into one. I’m an engineer and not tanky so I just kept running away disarming mines. His attacks were pretty weak, around 500 damage per charge.
I didn’t know about using skill 5 to stop him from detonating all the mines. I kept trying to use it to push him in but it was terrible. When the mines respawn, they start off yellow which they aren’t armed yet and have to wait until it is red before you can disarm to green.
It is the human tier 3 cultural armor. You can see it on Logan Thackray. He just doesn’t wear the helmet.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Captain_Logan_Thackeray.jpg
The colors are different here, but you can change it to whatever dyes you want.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Protector%27s_armor_heavy_human_female_front.jpg
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/File:Protector%27s_armor_heavy_human_male_front.jpg
I missed the Lost Shores event, but had no trouble understanding the story here. On the first day of the new event, I walked through that asura and started talking to NPCs at Pearl Islet.
-Henrika(norn woman standing by subdirector Noll) said right away what a mistake it was for her to get help from Canach.
-Researcher Levvi(who you get the collector from) telling you to collect samples from these funny plants and when you finikitten, you get the backpiece item description that says outright it was Canach.
After the first week, I noticed some new things popping up.
-New memo at Steampipe Steading saying how the records were being destroyed on the mainland and Noll needs to protect the ones on the island.
-Inspector Kiel started talking to Noll about how the animals are targeting the buildings with records.
-During or after a crazed wildlife attack event at Steampipe Steading you will see Henrika walk in from Driftglass and hide in the bushes as Inspector Kiel comes to talk to her about getting help from Canach to destroy their contracts.
-Reseacher Levvi talks to Inspector Kiel on the holo communicator about how Canach’s plants are driving animals wild.
I think what they could have done is when you enter the solo dungeon to fight Canach, you get a cutscene of still pictures or even just an NPC conversation that can’t be skipped before you are able to go fight Canach. It would sum up what is happening.
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Why don’t you just check your ele for the mining pick then?