how do you even see people’s health?
What’s the point of making a post and then saying you’re not going to be reading the replies?
Probably just addressing his concerns to the developers.
so basically to fill a bar of mastery track I just need to gain exp like I used to? like kill trash mobs or do events in any area?
I’m not sure how that works. But base on what the dev post, to acquire mastery point, you need to do a variety of things, which is not what the OP suggested.
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I think you have roughly 1/6 chance to get a skill point from champ bag.
Those bag are quite common. Pretty much every part of the game drop them.
I thought it’ll almost be impossible to complete all of them.
well as long as there is not real reward for beeing the “best” we all should just ignore LB and play for fun.
I am not pushing for rewards, I just want to see who some of the best players are and the leaderboard should reflect that.
if all things goes right. Those teams can battle for the new game mode in the expansion.
I think the merges of solo and arena queue are probably preparation for the expansion. Since the queue wont’ get any better in the expansion. And the new game mode is probably where the top teams battle for their spot.
When will you realise win ratio is meaningless in the new leaderboards?
Right. But I think what those people are trying to say is the leaderboard still dont’ accurately shows who the better players is. Since it’s obvious all those people on the top are just people who play the most games.
I dont’ have a problem with people complaining about that. But I just think people should stop bashing solo queuers who dont’ have a good win ratio.
As for no ESL guys having a good win/loss ratio in soloq, did you even look at the soloq leaderboard before the change? Let’s take Sizer for example, he had a 66% win/loss ratio before the leaderboard change and spent a fair amount of time at #1: http://www.gw2score.com/PvP/historyPlayer/Sizer2654
quite honestly I don’t even know much about pvp or scoreboard.
But is he still able to do it now? Or if there is even data that he is still able to do it now after the changes.
No he’s not, that’s the issue. He doesn’t spend 12 hours every day playing ranked queue like all these people in the top 10.
of course I understand that.
I mean can he still solo queue and have an above average win ratio right now after his MMR have settled.
Impossible for us to tell now since there isn’t a seperate soloq leaderboard and obviously he queues with a team a lot.
Right. I’m just saying I would like to see some one come out and claim they can do that solo queue and have a win ratio. Especially if they team queue alot which boaster their MMR.
With the current way things work, if his good, he’ll probably be the scapegoat who is taking quite some unfair matches. If he still manages to win those solo queuing, I’ll tip the hat to him.
I’m just guessing the only way to do that is win alot of games initially when the game havn’t set your MMR yet.
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As for no ESL guys having a good win/loss ratio in soloq, did you even look at the soloq leaderboard before the change? Let’s take Sizer for example, he had a 66% win/loss ratio before the leaderboard change and spent a fair amount of time at #1: http://www.gw2score.com/PvP/historyPlayer/Sizer2654
quite honestly I don’t even know much about pvp or scoreboard.
But is he still able to do it now? Or if there is even data that he is still able to do it now after the changes.
No he’s not, that’s the issue. He doesn’t spend 12 hours every day playing ranked queue like all these people in the top 10.
of course I understand that.
I mean can he still solo queue and have an above average win ratio right now after his MMR have settled.
And since team queue and solo queue is mixed now. His teamq win might make it harder for him to win solo queue also.
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As for no ESL guys having a good win/loss ratio in soloq, did you even look at the soloq leaderboard before the change? Let’s take Sizer for example, he had a 66% win/loss ratio before the leaderboard change and spent a fair amount of time at #1: http://www.gw2score.com/PvP/historyPlayer/Sizer2654
quite honestly I don’t even know much about pvp or scoreboard.
But is he still able to do it now? Or if there is even data that he is still able to do it now after the changes.
A bit off topic. I remember doing court yard and some guy stopped trying near the end of match and just say please kill me faster.
I like to know if that is consider manipulating. Or what’s the breaking point on people giving up on matches.
Me personally, I kind of do the same, when the opponent is winning by 200 points, I kind of give up trying since I want to end it faster to go on the next match to finish my daily. I also notice the trend on a minority of my teammates who want to do the same too.
All because someone is great at team play with a practices team doesn’t mean they are so hot in solo ques with all the unknown elements – just a thought.
This problem is already solved by having soloq and teamq merged and has absolutely no relevance to this discussion.
You bashed solo queuers. But I have yet heard of any ESL guys who can solo queue and have good win ratio.
I’m a pretty terrible pvp players and I already think I’m getting handicape. Because almost all the matched the opponent have equal or slightly more team players. And my teams some times have stacking thiefs but my opponent almost never have that.
I can’t imagine all those all star teamq players trying to solo queue and get their butt kick because of unfair matches.
There might be people able to solo queue and wins alot of games at first because their MMR havn’t been set yet. But I love to see someone come out and claim they can solo queue and win consistently.
Laokoko- if you lose fast enough then yes. They could even turn on auto run so they die over and over while they go and watch tv. All they need to do is give it an input every minute or so.
well they probably can do it while they are watching tv.
I’ll be surprise if they actually gain faster. Since include queue times, they need every match to be 2.5 times shorter, which most likely wont’ happen.
I’m not saying people dont’ do it. Since they are probably botting, or semi afk leeching. But what you said about faster by purposely lossing are probably not true, especially not every map have cliff to jump
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Laokoko- I’m not too sure what your trying to state
Maybe there is no chance to winning. You gain 4 times more track record for winning. You seriously telling me they gain track record faster for purposely lossing?
It’s still happening. Anyone know a way to get around it? Sad wasted 1 hour in a fractal and can’t progress further.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/support/bugs/Molten-Furnace-Fractal-Bug
I thought hammer guard was useful in guards. Is it just because of all the light fields? I was just beginning to do FotM with guard, and uh, if I shouldn’t be running hammer, it would always help to know : )
It’s mostly the light fields yeah. It’s less DPS and never really needed. If someone’s gonna down, they’re gonna down. Protection or not.
But I will say, I’d way way rather have a hammer guard than a staff guard obviously xD
I’m not sure what you expect out of your pug. Maybe your expectation is a bit too high for pug, just like the OP.
It’s not like I even see elementalist or engineer that much in fotm50. So I’m quite surprised people have a problem with hammer guardian in a fotm50 pug.
And I dont’ really see other class bother with fire field/blast that much.
That being said, I cant’ remember the last time an elemantalist actually blasted might during a fight with boomalang. Usually they just stay max distance and dont’ really balst during fight.
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I use hammer occassionaly in FOTM. I think it all depend on the party. Sometimes those 33% protection is helpful. But most of the time I still use greatsword.
For example at cliffside, I would use hammer when stacking in middle just because I think those protection would be more helpful. But I wouldn’t use in ascalon, because the monster hit so hard I dont’ think those 33% protection even matter. Greatsword would kill faster and 1 extra blind. It’s a kill or be killed situation there.
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Just to be clear, you realize they will beta test the game no matter what right?
I think what you mean to ask is if they’ll open beta to the public, whether through an open beta or by some more selective process.Nope! i don’t mean an open beta. I mean as i say. & yes, they prolly are beta testing the game prior to it’s release. But what i’m suggestion as you can properly read on my question, are they going to do it extensively with more then 1000 playtesters to make sure the game is fun? Why is that not clear?
I beta tested a few games. And 1000 play tester isn’t a lot. Most of the time, those player tester barely spend any time on the beta test server. They only go there to check what’s new, or see if there’s some economy change they can profit from, and that’s it. And the rest of the time, they rather spend on the live server.
Unless those 1000 tester are selected either because they actaully paid money, or they are from writers or bloggers etc. Most of them wont’ bother to test the game extensively.
I would say an open beta for a few weeks is much more helpful.
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I honestly dont’ understand the OP. How is 1000 people testing larger than an open beta which have milllions of people testing.
Unless those 1000 people are actually paid tester.
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I would presume they’ll open up beta test server for a while.
They probably wont’ even allow us to transfer char. So people need to start at lvl1 and level up again. So that’ll take a while.
My impression when they say, they’ll let the players decide if the product is ready to be released yet, means the beta will be quite long.
Just because you played a thousand games and won only 100 of them, doesn’t mean your going to be top of the leaderboard when a bunch of other people played 300 games and won 175 of them.
That’s all the problem actually, it looks like players with 100 wins and 500 loses would be at the same rank spot( if not higher) as someone with 95 wins and 10 loses. If you check leaderboards, you will see than, in average, number of points = number of wins.
You know, i saw several times #1 with 1 win and 4 loses, ending up with no negative points. From this simple exemple, you see there’s a problem somewhere…
I still think it would be helpful having the statistics when the match begins/ends, to understand better…
Right, but I think the leaderboard is the way it is because there is just no way to determine who should deserve it.
Also win/rate doesn’t matter. If anyone solo queuing have an absurdly high/loss rate, it just means match making isn’t doing a good job. Since ideally everyone solo queuing should have 50% win rate. Since that’s what the match making system is suppose to do.
I understand many pvp team are upset they aren’t able to be at top of the ladders. I hope the expansion and new game mode will solve their problem.
how long does a dungeon track stay up.
Say COE dungeon track starts march 1st. How long does the dungeon track stay till you can’t do it any more?
How can someone with almost a 35% win ratio be in the top 50? It is a grind fest, losing games should never give you points period.
I probably ask why the guy have 35% win ratio. The poor guy keep losing but Anet continue putting him in bad teams against hard opponent.
For solo queuing, I don’t see how there is anyway to determine who should be on top, especially with match manipulation. The only fair way to do it is just put players in to bracket and let them fight to the top. But dont’ look like it’s happening without making queue time longer.
and i only pvp for the reward track, so if they change the system, I’ll be kittened because I dont’ care about ladder but my win ratio.
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I don’t know how everyone get kick so often. I do 6-7 pick up dungeon runs a day. I think I only get kicked 3 or 4 times. And all of those are my own fault. Maybe I’m just lucky.
If you are new to the game, I would suggest playing another class. Elementalist is probably the hardest class for new player.
I posted at 5:19 am EST and green logs had a high bid of 46c at 5:17 am EST and soft planks had a low sell of 5s83c and the same time. Data from GW2TP.com.
Doing the math means 750 green logs cost 3.45g plus the 50-60c for the shimmering dust as your cost while you sold your promoted planks for 86.3 × 5.83s x 0.85 so 82.11s profit for 0.2 SP. 5 times that is about 4.1g, not 6g.
And it was 6 1/2 hours after my post until Soft plank started it’s big nose dive today of over 50c in an hour. So it’s not me dude check the price drop over the last week. From 7.7s to 5.83s before I even posted.
ya those number looks correct. I dont’ know why I think it’s 6g before. Maybe I look at google sheet too fast, or brain fog memory, or google sheet didn’t update.
I think the profit is now 2.77 per skill point? Assuming green wood log 0.44 soft wood plank 5.32? 86.3 average output?
I see other people use 86.3 as average out put. I’m not sure why. But I personally get a bit over that number too, so I dont’ think that’s a problem.
That being said, I dont’ think the number have been that low 2.77gold per skill point! We know who to blame to showing people the secret now!
ZOMG! Those people with thousands of skill points going to undercut you now!
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I would never buy from another person with the LFG.
That being said, there is no official rule saying people can’t use LFG to sell things.
Unless Anet make it official, people will keep doing it.
I guess Silverwastes are over for the masses so bye-bye actual demand. New players mean a spike in green log supply which opened a short term window for big profits and now some players don’t know when to stop.
If you didn’t make a post about it, maybe the profit wont’ shrink this much. The profit was still 6 gold per skill point when you made this post.
I only sell 6 stack a week. You guys are too greedy. I blame Wanze and Behellagh
kitten, I need to take my sale down again because Wanze and Behellagh is undercutting.
I already mentioned that i dont sell at these prices, my lowest listing is at 5.97s and i just listed another batch around 7s. Its people like you that relist, if some of their listings fail to sell, that drive the prices down.
But its always easier to blame someone else for its own misfortunes, i guess.
Your 7 silver is undercutting my 7.50! I only sell once a week, and you are undercutting them!!
Oh my god, you guys! shake head. Sad face =(
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I only sell 6 stack a week. You guys are too greedy. I blame Wanze and Behellagh
kitten, I need to take my sale down again because Wanze and Behellagh is undercutting.
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I think it’s still roughly 2+ gold per skill point assuming average output of 86.3 per promotion, it was 6 gold before Behellagh post and let everyone know about it.
Let’s keep it going!
I’m surprised you call it a bad match up. You manage to get 200 point 4vs5. You probably win if you have 5 people.
I just realized my main character use 80-100 slots permanently too.
So only got maybe 60 slots I can use.
I never find that a problem though, just carry a copper-fed-salvage kit with me.
People are actually sad about this? This is great.
Only the greedy kittens who got the prices to this ridiculous level in the first place. I hope they get stuck with their legendary/precursors now, since anyone with some savvy will not even consider buying these until the Xpac drops. Let the vultures go hungry.
You may want to look more into why the prices are why they are. It’s not because of sellers trying to manipulate the market.
Most of the precursor come from the forge. If the guy is not happy with the price he should throw thousands of gold into the forge himself.
I don’t know why people always think some market manipulator cause the precursor price to go up. There is just not enough dusk/dawn/incinerator/the legend/zap drop in the open world to support all the people wanting it. Mystic forge is the only solution, and it ain’t cheap.
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People are actually sad about this? This is great.
Only the greedy kittens who got the prices to this ridiculous level in the first place. I hope they get stuck with their legendary/precursors now, since anyone with some savvy will not even consider buying these until the Xpac drops. Let the vultures go hungry.
Pretty much this. Though, the precursors are still slowly dropping further in price.
If everyone dont’ keep bumping the price of tier 5 and tier 6 material, none of it will happen.
People act like they are not part of the problem.
But here’s the thing, as the T1 price was falling, there was no need to lower the price of the T2. Expand your profit margin, not keep the profit the same by dropping the T2 price.
Maybe your 13k softwood is blocking someone’s sale…
And then it snowballs after that.
At least we know who to blame now…
But here’s the thing, as the T1 price was falling, there was no need to lower the price of the T2. Expand your profit margin, not keep the profit the same by dropping the T2 price.
Maybe your 13k softwood is blocking someone’s sale…
massive drop in tier1 wood probably caused it. I dont’ know why tier 1 woodspike a month ago. Maybe everyone is in silverwaste that time. But the quick droped in tier 1 wood might cause the tier2 wood to drop. Maybe the double exp and 9.99$ promotion brings many people to the low level zone.
Tier 2 wood price is tied to tier1 wood price BTW due to promotions.
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There’s youtube video on how to farm emphyreal fragment in the open world chest.
You do get decent amount of emphyreal fragment just opening chest in the open world. But dungeon not only give emphyreal fragment, but also gold and token.
They’ll never run out. They’ll probably be sold with ridiculous price like previous skin but they wont’ run out.
It’s not even expensive (like 70 gold right now for 10 power core) compare to some of previous skins.
That being said, I hope they come back. I dont’ want to spend 70 gold just to get different color.
Engineer, everything…. but all just a bit. average DPS
Why do people still think this? Engis have pretty solid damage if you execute properly.
ya, I’ll just play other class and click 1 or 2 button. I’m not doing the thing shown below.
ps. I dont’ know if the video is the meta rotation. I think someone from DnT have the rotation for all the class.
Maybe they taking winning so seriously they don’t want to queue ranked when they are testing something or have replaced member.
I would imagine everyone on their tail if they even loss a game.
Necro Pve/Dungeons
Still think a PBAOE wellmancer would be viable for necro
3/0/5/6/0 or 6/0/2/6/0 well of blood, suffering, darkness, corruption
Everything is viable. You just dont’ do “max damage”.
I think the meta is 6/6/0/0/2 for dagger. There is also another build which use axe and keep building life force to use death shroud.
I think I personally use 6/4/0/4/0 and sacrifice like 10% damage to become a bit tanky.
I didn’t look at your build in depth. But you might sacrifice a bit too much.
There’s guide posting by other people on the web, you can try taking a look. The thing is necro is really tanky already and you don’t need to sacrifice too much.
Why do you consider Necromancer a poor choice for PvE?
I think people are talking about meta. All class bring “something” to help speed run except necro. That being said I love playing necro in pug. It is really tanky and easy to play. And I outdamage people most of the time anyway. PUG dont’ even use slaying potion.
I think necromancer is one of the best class in pug for average skilled players. But you obviously won’t want it when you are trying to break the world speed record.
elemental, warrior, engineer ==> might stacking.
thiekittentealth
guardian> reflect, stability
mesmer > portal, blink, reflect time warp
ranger, necro> ??? nothing
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I never join my guildmates in team queue because I dont’ want to get into the social issue. For example I can be a bad player and dont’ get blamed.
If guild vs guild is exlucsive to team play, I will be left out(or forced to to team fight that I dont’ necessary want).
I hope solo players can experienced stronghold too.
I dont’ know how it’ll happen in the new expansion.
But it “might” get easier “or harder” depend how they implemented the new map.
How is it horrible? The problem is the pool of players to chose from, when your queuing. Your option is to not play for a very long time, while the system waits for others to near your rating level to queue up, or play with other who are relatively close, based on system perimeters set.
My opinion is if they want to merge, they should start with merging ranked and unranked arena together first.
Obviously people will complain that they wont’ be able to test builds etc. But it is something better to sacrifice. Instead of just queueing solo players with premades to save queue time.
I dont’ wvw. I only do spvp.
I use an axe warrior for spvp for dailys because hambow is too hard to play. It is not easy to hit people with eviscerate. Most of the time I missed.
I think wvw have different build though so they can stun people and makes it easier for eviscerate to land.
Well, i forged more 100k rare weapons (mostly for sale) since wintersday patch and my profit per t5 fine mat used was between 50c-1s, which is a little higher than the profit per t5 mat used when promoting to t6 and I dont have to spend skillpoints.
ya, I think you are under the assumption people are willing to sit in the town all day just crafting rares and putting it on the trading post or forging. Not everyone want to spend their time that way.
It’s efficient money, but not everyone willing to just sit in town doing that. And obviously not many people willing to do that. That’s why it is profitable.