I’m struggling to wrap my head around this idea.
I run two different builds on my Guardian – pure Berserker and PTV with a heavy focus on Vitality and Toughness. I notice considerable differences in survivability between the two builds.
Why the thought “toughness/vitality doesn’t matter” exists is beyond me.
EDIT: the post above me – “A guardian, meanwhile, runs with 12k life pool” – um…what? A proper tank-spec. Guardian can get 25k HP with little problems. Not everything needs a Berserker group.
Nothing is easier than 4 full might character using icebow though. Since everything dies in 10 seconds. I think that’s what the OP is basically saying.
the difficulty differnece is not big for level 1 and 8. The difference only go up more for different tier. So 11 is harder than 1, but 8 is similar to 1. You only gain personal level if you do fractal higher level than you. So that’s why people usually choose the higher level.
level 31+ you get mistlock instability. (google it). So people typically choose the easier ones, 32, 36,37,38,40,49,50.
I think 1-10 is tier 1.
11-20 is tier 2
21-30 is tier 3
31-40 is tier 4
41-50 is tier 5
Probably the same, or at least not noticeable difference that anyone actually know if there is a difference. You do get 4 more fractal relics though.
I think the reality is GS/sword/focus meta is very defensive. Just look at all the blind, block you have.
If you are doing hammer, you might as well take the grandmaster traits too. Battle presence is a good group buff. Force of will boost your hp quite huge.
I find force of will particular good, when you actually have problem surviving.
The average run takes 25* minutes (for 50) in an experienced organised group with good synergy, a lot slower in less organised groups however (40-50 min and 45 ish+ for average pug).
again this guy with his 25 minutes on lvl 50.
well many people lurking here are one of those youtube people.
I see quite a few of people here posting youtube video regularly.
and some are in hardcore dungeon guild, and if they don’t do good they get kick, so they have to be good.
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PS there are plenty of times people have gotten me killed on arch diviner from range spam during reflect, sometimes it is your fault.
see i strongly disagree with this. It last 3 second. Maybe you should just back out.
The way I see it is, if you die, doesn’t matter how bad the group is, it’s always the dead person’s fault.
If you are truly pro, you should be able to melee regardless how bad your group is.
Wtf… Ever tought of partywide aegis?
Exactly, you should never blame your teammates.
I always blame the lag when the happen.
“oh man, the lag, I can’t see my aegis got knocked of that’s why I die”.
That being said, you can blame people if it is a premade. But if it’s a pug, and your aegis get knocked of, that is expected.
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PS there are plenty of times people have gotten me killed on arch diviner from range spam during reflect, sometimes it is your fault.
see i strongly disagree with this. It last 3 second. Maybe you should just back out. And you can position yourself not in between person ranging.
The way I see it is, if you die, doesn’t matter how bad the group is, it’s always the dead person’s fault.
If you are truly pro, you should be able to melee regardless how bad your group is.
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I’m a bad player so I range.
It gets annoying playing with other melee pretend to be though
If you die melee, it’s not because other people is ranging. You are just not as good as you think you are.
I don’t mind people melee and die. But it get annoying when the person die complain about other people ranging.
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I do find long bow ranger more superior in a few of the fight. But those fight make up like 5% of the fractal. (for average players in a pug)
not sure if specialize can change weapon at will. need to wait and see.
berserker armor (scholar or traveler rune)?
berserker is meta for pve. And you can play medi guard for roaming which also use berserker armor.
I dont’ know how big the zerg is for your server. Unless your server have constant large zerg battle, you might as well go medi guard, which is decent in roaming, small fight.
I’m not 100% sure on this. I “think” someone in beta says you gain a tiny amount of exp in mastery but not a full level.
My memory is fuzzy so don’t count on what I said is accurate.
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Im’ not sure what people have to loss if they just run back though.
I understand people don’t like to WP at the end of the battle. Because they might loss out on the rewards.
But if they die at the start of the battle, they can just WP, run back and not loss anything.
Oh, but wait, those take charged quartz crystals, eh not a big deal right just go to the home instance and mine a few a day until you can charge them up (since we all know the Zephyrites don’t have anything to celebrate and we’ll never be able to farm there ever again) … Oh what? You don’t have a Quartz node in your home instance? (Where the kitten were you?) That’s right your a new player, silly me … Hmm, what are your options, go to Dry Top and wait and farm a node or three a day (hopefully within the allotted time frame)… Are you sure you really want to craft those charged ambrite orichalcum earrings, really?
Do they really deserve that kind of treatment?
Everything is much easier if you just use the trading post.
For example, spend 2 minutes and teleport to a iron node. Harvest. Sell those iron. Buy 25 quartz crystal from the trading post. Way point to a skill point to commute(1 minutes).
There you go, done in 3-4 minutes. You get a charged crystal.
I dont’ find it a big deal, the rewards for practice arena just arn’t good anyway.
You can win every games auto capping, and the rewards is only similar to that of unranked arena.
Obviously the good part is you can do it afking. But there is also a cap to how much you can get everyday.
I do find it cheesy, but not so much of a big deal.
I don’t understand this. Why can’t you just save up from your wallet like everyone else?
Maybe he have like 10,000 gold. He have to be extra cautious when buying things or sending mail. Since he dont’ want to accidently input the wrong amount.
I hope this not a april fool’s joke.
That being said probably very small amount of people(active trader, guild orgznizer etc) is affected.
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need to see if the new precursor can be forged and if it is tradable.
If the new precursor is forgeable but non tradable. That means the old precursor will only have 50% chance of dropping.
New precursors can only be crafted by a very, very long process.
Old precursors can either be crafted by the same process, or they can be found/obtained through RNG, or they can be bought.
All new precursors and old precursors that are crafted will become account bound. All old precursors that are found/obtained will remain tradable.
Woodenpotatoes did a video on this, with video of the precursor crafting achievement page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhIXYGQR-fQ
There are no official info, or any interview which say it right? So everyone just interpret it in their own way base on the blog anet posted.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/a-legendary-journey/
And my interpretation is there are no official word that the new precursor can’t drop from mystic forge/open world. Only ting they say is it will be account bound.
And you also notice Anet stress that people can get more than one of the same precursor for the old ones. If people want more of the same new legendary how will people be able to get it?
So my interpretation is I don’t know, and I doubt any one knows until Anet release more info.
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And laokoko, in your answer you’re basically blaming the OP’s decision, but not at all developping why my answer results in “bad game design” while I’m developping why it wouldn’t affect the current trends of the TP.
It’s a bad game design because Anet probably have better things to do than dealing with “very few whinners” who complain about listing fee because they keep trying to undercut people by low amount.
Basically OP like orange, someone like apple. You can’t really compare what people prefer.
If you don’t realize many people actually don’t like the system OP or you proposed. You can’t really ask me why I don’t like your system right? I just dont’ like it. Mostly because it is risk vs rewards. You can risk it by selling high or playing safety by undercut more. It’s fun to me.
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I think it’s the part where Anet have to overwhole their whole database and add time stamp to items just because a few people complaint about listing fee (where they could easily avoid by selling cheaper or to the buy order).
Even many of the players arn’t very supportive. They could have sold to my buy order, why do they sell so high.
Hum no. The problem here has never been about people pricing too low, but people who price too high so they get left out.
I just gave a solution for them that would not hinder the undercuters. That’s all. And that’s the main problem mentioned by the OP.You price your good low, it has a chance to get sold right away.
Now, what about those who were around the right range of price at their time but end up with a too expensive product half a year later ?
They should have a way to get their chance at selling their product. And my post answered that problem
Their not at the right range of price. Take for example I place a buy order for x item at 70.99 silver.
In two weeks I have never bought a single one of that item. because there is always people over bidding by one copper. And there are tones selling everyday. Right now the buy order is at 71.1 silver.
If you have a habit of crafting high price item, weather that is legendary or mjonir or whatever. If you only undercut by 1 gold. The chance of you getting undercut is really really high. It will literally never sell. But if he undercut by 100-200, it have a much better chance to getting sold.
I would guess OP is trying to sell eternity. If he thinks a second he should know the price is trending down, since there are more and more people who try to sell it after the wardrobe system. He should have undercut more to begin with.
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Plus, by limiting the correction, it would still force people to aim for an accurate price otherwise they’ll have to change their price little by little every few months and might not make it to the right price in time.
The system is already limiting the correction. If the OP undercut by more in the first place, he won’t get into this problem.
If the OP don’t want to get undercut, he should undercut more so less people will try to undercut him.
Like I said before, there is no right or wrong answer.
Right now I have a black lion weapon which have no supply on the trading post(just a sclerite rifle no one probably care). If I can switch price at will, I’ll list it for 2000 gold right now on the trading post and not worry about paying a penalty if it dont’ sell. Instead I have to decide if I want to gamble and sell it cheaper.
There is pros and cons for every system. And Anet just happen to went with theirs.
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Apparently this player spent 200g on listing a Legendary for 2,000g (most likely undercutting others already listed). More people posted up the same Legendary at a cheaper price than his, thus his won’t sell. Now he wants the ability to change his original price without penalty or fee so that he can undercut those that undercut him.
Yes, it is as silly as it sounds.
I’m a bit confused, why is it silly for a salesman to rearrange his pricing and offer his goods for the same/a lower price as his competitors?
He has already lost the 200g and would lose additional money by taking it away from his possible profit?
There is nothing wrong with it. The OP can change his price right now, he just loss 200 gold.
And quite honestly, the OP didn’t loss 200 gold. He most likely just make less profit.
There isn’t even anything wrong with what the OP suggested. Anet just happen to think their system fit their game better.
Many bid/trading system charge listing fee. Some mmorpg even charge listing fee if items don’t sell in 24 hours.
I like the idea OP suggested, except people should be able to set 2 price. A listing price and a lowest selling price which would automatically adjust the price if he get undercut untill his lowest selling price. A similar system could be use on bidding price too. That is just my personal preference.
There is no right or wrong answer, it’s just people’s preference.
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I still dont’ think it’s a big deal.
People trading objective for dailys etc.
Just treat it like vista daily.
You don’t get much for the reward track anyway, even if you win every match in practice arena. So only thing good for is the daily.
instead of caring so much about practice arena, you can just do unranked arena.
I dont’ know why people care so much about custom arena.
Those are basically rooms people set up themself with the rules they want.
If you care so much you should play unranked or ranked arena.
I honestly doubt people that have a hard time killing the boss is able to skip phases.
A suggestion is if your not in danger of the boss diving into a villager, try to kill as many elemental as possible before popping the boss bubble(it is suggested by guildwars2 dungeon.net)
I think the first phase 75% is unskippable. If you do so much damage really fast, like 4 icebow full might you can skip the 50%, and maybe even 25%.
There is youtube video about it. Need to search for it.
you can signet of might and pindown on warrior too.
metabattle have a build for warrior to use for imbued shaman.
I still havn’t seen anyone soloing imbued shaman on 50. there is a duo video up though.
maybe 1 is +5 and another is +10. dont’ know if it matters
need to see if the new precursor can be forged and if it is tradable.
If the new precursor is forgeable but non tradable. That means the old precursor will only have 50% chance of dropping.
you can suggest anything you want. Just like other people have suggested buy order should have listing fee too before.
and they are saying it’s better in their opinion too.
So basically two totally opposite opinion each thinking their way is better and convincing other people. If you didn’t realize, many people disagree with you in this post. Just as there are people agreeing with you.
I think some of the precursor market also have to do with people gambling in mystic forge.
You have to wait to see how the tier5 market changes. And how the new precusor and mystic foge factor in the formula.
People who are farming precursor for money most likely will target all the expensive ones first, so those will be the prime target first.
There will also be achievement hunter who probably try to get every precursor.
If things get cheaper it’ll also mean people stop gambling in mystic forge.
The expensive ones, most likely.
The medium to cheap one, maybe not.
It might be expensive (and/or) time consuming to do the precursor hunt. No one really knows.
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I dont’ think anyone knows how scaling works.
Like if people teleport away will that scale down boss. How long a dead people need to be until the event scale down dead people etc.
And I think a huge percentage of people dieing is probably slacking. I know I sometimes get tiered or is eating so play with one hand, that is usually how I die.
A bunch of time I rezed dead people in teq who is just afking. Usually it is better to say thankyou when people rezed you so people know you are not one of the afk people.
I think ranger is a ranged class actually. They do exceptional damage at range. Some class have the potential to do it too but it’s much harder to control say grenade or sceptor smite for guardian.
The thing is ranger have decent melee capability, if Anet want to buff ranger range more, they need to nerf ranger melee to compensate. Anet already buff rapid fire a few patch ago.
If Anet made the change, you’ll make less money too because people will get into an undercut war.
If you dont’ want to take the risk of being undercut, you can sell your legendary 200 gold below the market price to begin with.
I’m not saying your suggestion is bad. But I’m basically saying the reason you have profit to begin with is there are no system which you can change your sell listing price at will.
I think the reason is it is much easier to survive at range. And people taking more risk are rewarded more.
And quite honestly ranger rapid fire dps are boost a few patch ago. So it is at least quite decent. I’m not sure about the exact dps, but many people are still under the misconception it is really bad, while it is at least somehow decent.
Many people mock bow ranger in fractal. But quite honestly majority of the people is ranging in high level fractal. And many of the people meleeing are even doing less damage because they spend too much time running and dodging.
ya they do. But just be cautious some items might not be salvageble. For example the nomad trinket from silverwaste is probably not salvageble.
And most of the trinket are cheap probably because they won’t give much back. If you have a black lion kit, you are probably better off salvaging some of the exotic armor or weapon which give inscription and runes/sigil back.
For trinket salvaging I mostly use mystic/master salvage kit. I dont’ think its is worth to salvage with black lion kit on it.
metabattle usually have the trends as what the general public regarded as the ideal build.
there are also variation or you can use it as a templates to make variation of the builds which fit your playstyle more.
I hope people dont’ get discouraged. And wish everyone good luck on their run.
The King guild have done extensive research on drop rate and I find it useful. If anyone is interested check out the link below
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IHVJao5j85KOp6lBTOgO8qs4VYD3Xty-jKPZo8o-Q4/pubhtml
Is there anyway to hide the health bar? without hiding all the UI?
I find it more annoyed that it is blocking the enemy animation sometimes.
I think it’s the part some skpping is fun to do.
For example the tunnel in AC where there are trap and some scavenger patrolling. It take some skill, probably more so than killing those trash mob to pull it off.
And the thing is people like challenge. Finding more efficient ways to do the content some time become the challenge, so you can keep improving your dungeon clear time.
And some trash mob just isn’t challenge at all. I’m not sure what’s the fun in them. If the difficulty is on par with fotm50 dredge or urban battleground, that can be fun. But as it is, some of those trash dont’ offer any challenge at all.
I dont’ have a problem with killing all the mobs. I played a mmorpg where you have to kill all the monster in the dungeon “in a time constraint” or you won’t get any loot at all. That is challenging.
I think it’s the challenging part that makes dungeon fun. And once a dungeon is beaten, improving your time(or finding better way to do things) become the only challenge in the game.
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When did you start to run fractal lorddavito?
I think the confusion is you say you do fractal50 everyday but never stated when you start doing it.
I think you missed my point, people shouldn’t focus so kitten just getting an epic reward, they need to enjoy themselves so they don’t grate on every little negativity.
the thing is it should be reasonable.
If someone really ran FOTM50 900 times and only gotten 1 skin. He have good reason to complain.
I ran 38, 50 for a few month and I gotten 30 skins. If he ran FOTM50 for 3 years everyday and only gotten 1 skin, he have every reason to complain.
That being said, I honestly doubt the OP really ran FOTM50 900 times. He might mean his FOTM dialogue says 900, which is really like 225 runs and most of them low level fractal. And most of his run might be before the fractal update which was 5%. It’s now 10%.
OP should stop running fotm every day then, take a break and come back at a later date, question is are the fotm skins so highly desired by this person they justify overly grinding for them rather then taking casual time so as to not burn out on it?
He probably ran alot. But I highly doubt he actually ran fotm50 900 times. He should have averaged like 50 skins already. Since it was 5% before. It is 10% now. So if some one ran it 900 times, they should have gotten 90 skins.
This is the disconnect I see on the forums. Some of us get nothing which is why we’re angry.
I don’t think you understand. Unless the loot table is broken. It is literally impossible to get 1 skin in 900 FOTM50 full run. The chance of that happen is smaller than a meteor hit the earth and earth explode tomorrow.
He might be unlucky, but I think he didnt’ actually mean 900 full FOTM50 runs. Like I said before, he might just mean his achievement dialogue says 900.
If the OP returns, maybe he can clarify. Since 900 times means he ran fractal50 everyday since it’s released. If he can clarify if he really did that, that’ll clear things up.
I think just saying 900 is confusing since not sure what he mean full fractal run or 900 fractal instance.
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I think you missed my point, people shouldn’t focus so kitten just getting an epic reward, they need to enjoy themselves so they don’t grate on every little negativity.
the thing is it should be reasonable.
If someone really ran FOTM50 900 times and only gotten 1 skin. He have good reason to complain.
I ran 38, 50 for a few month and I gotten 30 skins. If he ran FOTM50 for 3 years everyday and only gotten 1 skin, he have every reason to complain.
That being said, I honestly doubt the OP really ran FOTM50 900 times. He might mean his FOTM dialogue says 900, which is really like 225 runs and most of them low level fractal. And most of his run might be before the fractal update which was 5%. It’s now 10%.
OP should stop running fotm every day then, take a break and come back at a later date, question is are the fotm skins so highly desired by this person they justify overly grinding for them rather then taking casual time so as to not burn out on it?
He probably ran alot. But I highly doubt he actually ran fotm50 900 times. He should have averaged like 50 skins already. Since it was 5% before. It is 10% now. So if some one ran it 900 times, they should have gotten 90 skins.
My geuss is he misinterpret. Maybe his achievement says 900 fractal dungeon. Which is really 225 full fractal runs. Since a full run consist of 4 mini dungeon. And most of them is low level.
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I think you missed my point, people shouldn’t focus so kitten just getting an epic reward, they need to enjoy themselves so they don’t grate on every little negativity.
the thing is it should be reasonable.
If someone really ran FOTM50 900 times and only gotten 1 skin. He have good reason to complain.
I ran 38, 50 for a few month and I gotten 30 skins. If he ran FOTM50 for 3 years everyday and only gotten 1 skin, he have every reason to complain.
That being said, I honestly doubt the OP really ran FOTM50 900 times. He might mean his FOTM dialogue says 900, which is really like 225 runs and most of them low level fractal. And most of his run might be before the fractal update which was 5%. It’s now 10%.
^ then stop running to far from the start of the game then fighting off point constantly killing the beasts at the start of a match leaving a 3v4 at mid on foe fire… that should be the only reason people start to get angry at you.
oh and that one guy that keeps suiciding into a turret engie who holds the point till his friend turns up and ganks them…
psh, I play how I want. Colin says it’s ok =)
ya I usually only turn on team chat during pvp.
The problem is when your teamates start kittening you in team chat, that is unavoidable.
I’m kind of confused on focus. If all 3 block is used up, it won’t do any damage?
I’m just curious.
isn’t shoutbow warrior just bad in 1vs1. I thought they are mostly used in small groups.