Guild Wars 2

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

Start dropping in a container that lets you pick the one you want.

#itshappening
#yes
#finally
#thehappening
#praisethesix
#thankyoubasedanet

So I read in another thread that if we have 55AR now, we’ll have 55AR post update, but the inherit +5AR is being replaced by an infusion.

So I guess my question is, does this mean that we will gain an ADDITIONAL infusion slot, and have two just like the 2h weapons do, or will this function in some other way? If I’ve already made one of the Omni infusions, is it lost?

Questions like these are unanswered and the whole fractals update thing could use a slightly more in-depth blog post.

So as I’m sure everyone is aware, the Commander and Squad system in Guild Wars 2 is… well… garbage. Currently all a Commander tag gives you is a glorified rally point, some fancy map markers, the ability to check people’s supply and access to special yellow chat.

Given the nature of WvW, there is some simple improvements that can be made. Here’s what I came up with:

Siege Bank
This would be an extension of your inventory and bank. Here Commanders can deposit and withdraw siege at any time. You can view it from your bank or open it from a panel in your inventory or as part of a Commander UI (discussed later). An nice addition to this would be 1 – 5 free slots of inventory space in the bank. Ideally this would be used for things like food pots, but are open for anything.

Guild/Public Tagging
This is probably the most needed addition to the system. Giving the Commander the ability to select if he/she wants their tag to be viewable publicly or just for their guild. Additionally, they may be able to select if other Commanders can see their tag. This would vastly improve grouping and co-ordination in WvW

Squad UI
Again, something that is totally missing from WvW. This UI would most likely display all the names, siege, professions, levels and guild tags of their squad. It would be brought up through the Commander UI. This would also allow Commanders to invite and kick people from their squad. As part of this system, players would have to accept the squad invite, but kicking someone would be one sided.

Auto-Supply Check
This would make a Commander’s life a thousand times easier. As part of the Commander UI, the total supply count of all players within a 350 range radius would be displayed. Hovering over this would bring up a list of all the player’s names and their supply, similar to the /supplyinfo command.

Commander UI
This is what ties everything together. The UI would appear when the Commander tags up, or could even be set as a hotkey window. From this UI, the Commander would have access to their Siege Bank and Commander Settings. Information such as Surrounding Player Count, Supply Count, Righteous Indignation Timers (face it, we all use the overlays anyway), Squad UI button and Current Tag Status (Public/Guild). In terms of the appearance and placement, it would want to be easy enough to read, without intruding on the interface. Ideally it would simply be a window the commander could drag and resize as required, but could also be placed under the events UI.

Chat Tag
Commander who’s publicly tagged, a Commander Icon would appear beside their name in chat. This is to ensure their messages stand-out above those who aren’t commanding,

Those are the things that I personally believe would improve the current Commander System. I’ve been Commanding for just under a year now and in my experience, found the system rather lacking. Whilst I like the idea of people being encouraged to only use the tag as a rally marker and actually become leaders, there also needs to be a lot more utility involved. There also needs to be a total rework of how it’s obtained, but that’s something for another day.

Your work is fantastic! If you’re ever free again I’d absolutely love to get a portrait done, I have the gold for it and I’ve been looking for someone good to do one or two of my characters.

Pretty interested, I put in an application. Hoping to get accepted for a trial run!

So I’m looking for a high-end PvE guild. Preferably doing things like fractals level 38, 48 and 50+. Running Arah often, CoE and HoTW too. Semi-regular guild missions.

One thing to note though is I’m a co-leader of sorts in a WvW guild on Isle of Janthir, so in terms of guild commitment it will be relatively low. I wont be rep 100% and wont be transferring servers.

That said, I’m a fairly experienced player. Here’s a few things about me as a player.

• 8k+ AP
• Sunrise
• Predominantly run zerk warrior
• Hobby Dungeon Explorer x 95 (almost 500 dungeon runs)
• Fractal Frequenter completed (500+ dungeons)
• 3k Gameplay hours (though at least half is from idling)
• Can offer 4 other 80s (Guard, Thief, Ele, Necro)
• Commander tag for guild missions if needed
• Experienced with guild missions
• 55 AR
• All forms of voice communication

As far as me as a person is concerned, I’m pretty laid back and enjoy most forms of humour. I’m from Australia, though I play in different timezones throughout the week, the predominantly Oceanic. I’m not really one for carebear or super PC environments, though I don’t go out of my way to offend. All in all, I’m just here to have fun and run dungeons when I’m not in WvW.

If I’m what you’re looking for then hit me up either via replying to this message or mailing me in-game.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

While it’s nice to have short stories that are pre-game-plot… snippity snip

Careful there Konig. You might get a 2-week forum ban for insulting (read: criticizing) the staff member who keeps pushing these!

Jokes aside, I agree. The current manor isn’t up to scratch. It’s great that we’re getting ‘extra lore’ but it should be just that. Extra lore. Not plot points. The plot points and crucial information should be in-game. The additional cool bits of information that the lore-guys love should be on the website, though in-game is better.

As Konig said, you have the ‘My story’ panel. Use it. It’s literally a useless tab after you complete your personal story. Hell, I didn’t even notice it until AFTER I completed it. Give us the goals and such there. It really doesn’t seem too hard. You had a system in place for Guild Wars 1 and the personal story of Guild Wars 2. Why is it so hard to bring it back?

The Fractal Capacitor t3 (or 4?) now shines 3 times as bright, to the point that you can no longer see the spinning cube inside. It also glitches when you rotate the camera, the shine creates an ‘above water/underwater effect’ where half of it is under the effects of a shader and the other half isn’t

She exists within the GW2 Multiverse

They’re invisible

All jokes aside, from a lore perspective, I’m sure they’re everywhere, but because of anet’s current “no mounts” (thank the gods) stance, putting them in would only make things a little more difficult.

Oh look… a horse. What? I can’t ride it?! “OMG ANET THERE IS HOARZ IN DA GAEM. Y CANT I RID IT.!??!..”

You get the picture. I imagine there’s technically a lot in Kryta.

Wethospu.6437:

People wanting content where Berserker sucks should remember that it needs be so hard that they will cry, not just a river, but a huge ocean.

Adding this to my forum signature. That made me laugh.

Edit: It didn’t fit. ;_;

This florin guys cracks me up. I have to find more of his posts…

Shard of Zhaitan item description states he is forever dead.

Nothing else to be said. He’s confirmed to be dead.

So I’ve noticed recently that the list of words that get censored is going a little over the top.

I can’t go to the lore forum anymore to talk about the kitten ing of the margonites and such, because words like ‘kitten ’ are censored. Oh, wait, you can’t read that.

I think it’s going a little over-the-top to expect everyone to talk like there’s children around. Remind me what this games rating is?

Look, I’m not trying to say that we should be allowed to swear our heads off on the forums, because that isn’t appropriate. I am saying that the list is getting ridiculous. I’d actually be interested to see the list of banned words. You can’t articulate what you want to say any more without every third word being censored. Hell even ArenaNet developer posts are getting censored.

I’m going to hazard a guess and say the way the lists updates is faulty, be it bugged or not.

Shout out to the Asuran engis that like to sit in IoJ BL. One from [BEEP] and one from [Eh].

That dual in font of lake the other day was pretty fun, but hot kitten those conditions…

In the recent patch, my FPS drops to essentially nothing whenever particle systems appear on my screen. The main ones are the ‘blast’ type effects. Typically this is Black Powder, Arcing Arrow, some engineer skills.

Basically ones that involve explosions from skills.

Is anyone else experiencing this?

ColinJohanson.2394:

You will absolutely see a way to create a precursor available in the future. As detailed in our plans for the second half of the year here:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/looking-ahead-guild-wars-2-in-2013/

As mentioned at the end of the blog, as always things are subject to change as test and prepare various systems. Most of the stuff covered in the blog you’ve already seen implemented, or steps towards being implemented, however the precursor building (and corresponding additional legendary items) is the one highest at risk to not make it this year.

It is still something we absolutely plan to do!

So we’re seeing “replace a dungeon path with a somewhat buggy one, Add lore-breaking stories to the game, E-SPORTZZ and create 2-minute Content™”

Instead of
“focus on what the playerbase actually wants and has been asking for”

For the love of Balthazar add some better rewards for defending!

Very few people actually do it, at least give us good rewards. Give an incentive for people to come back to the home BL.

SBI! SBI! SBI!

Please go to SBI if you just want to bandwagon and not contribute to a community.

Crazylegsmurphy.6430:

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A few simple bosses:

Perma-retaliation boss

Damage (not condition) immunity boss.

Damage and condition immunity boss. Can only be damaged via CC-ing into certain spots. Has no kite ability and will walk away from all these places. Immune to fear.

Immune to all-non-crit damage. Crits do 20% damage. Boss is not a HP sponge

30-second timer boss. Boss resets HP every 30 seconds. 600k health pool (20k dps for a party is actually pretty easy to achieve, by the way)

The exception to the AoEs rule, but still interesting:
Endurance boss. Endure a boss for a whole 2 minutes. He’s immune to damage. Does large scale AoEs, single target DPS, conditions and CC. Decent length/sized telegraphs. Gives a use for non-DPS spec gear. At least 1 party member must survive. Additional 50% endurance regen. Stacks with other buffs. Achievement for all party members to survive. Personal achievement for not going down.

Reflection/Block Boss:
Boss will only take damage from reflects and melee range blocks. Each reflect/melee range block does 5% damage. Single target projectiles. Deals 10k damage. 3k dps per second 200 range AoE ring. Must be within ring for block to take effect.

Ranged only boss:
Boss has a 600 range AoE ring. Stepping inside the ring results in a 3k DPS effect. Lasts 3 seconds on application. Boss has mid-high HP pool. Conditions do double damage.

Just a couple simple ideas that anet could use. Most are reasonably pug-friendly and anti-zerk.

I’d pay 30s for an on-the-go-reset at most, but this thing is like four gold.

You serious?

I’d rather take a few minutes to map around than pay 4g or 70 gems. What kind of person would even pay 70 gems for this? That’s almost a dollar for a trait reset. I’m not paying that.

Maybe if it was 5 gems. Hell, I’d even pay a few hundred gems for a permanent one.

Wow. Just… wow. This is… wow.

Really?

Successfully capped all of CD and BP’s LA earlier. I’d like to thank my fellow Janthirians who really came together in this crucial moment. Through hard work, top tier coordination and some fantastic leadership, we were able to accomplish this feat.

I’d like to send out a personal commendation to one of BP’s commander, they were a thief with a legendary dagger. They really showed some exceptional skill in combat and valiantly defended the Mystic Forge and the Trading Post.

Really looking forward to the rest of this match-up. Be careful though, CD and BP, we’re ready for you in our LA. You best come prepared.

IoJ/SoR/CD. Right.

Something is broken. We’re tier one now apparently.

WE T1 NOW!

Possible the biggest and most hilarious fail ever.

Also,

WE BP NOW!

WE BP NOW!!

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Wow guys! This match up has been really great so far. Seen some super awesome fights from HoD so far. I think CD has really shown us what a higher tier server can do, though I think we performed really well this week.

All in all, it’s been awesome. Looking forward to the rest of the week. Good luck to CD and HoD!

They’re doing everything in their power to make in “non-human-centric” that it’s killing the lore.

And this makes me mad.

Hooray!!

I’m loving this match up so far. Had some super fun fights against both BP and CD. Really looking forward to the rest of the week. Gotta say though, that BP zerg in their borderlands was massive. We actually saw it and just started running, pretty intimidating.

Great turn out from all sides and from what I’ve seen, some really fair fights with nice clean tactics.

Have fun this week!

Johje Holan.4607:

mexay.3902:

Lord Kuru.3685:

It’s just going to get worse for the leagues. Just imagine how fun it will be for #12 to “test their skill” against #1.

That’s almost painful to think about. They wont own a single camp the entire match up. I’ll be surprised if they can break 2k points for the week.

If #12 plays it smart they can have fun and hold much more than a camp.

Okay, okay, MAYBE a tower or two. A keep if they’re lucky.

Lord Kuru.3685:

It’s just going to get worse for the leagues. Just imagine how fun it will be for #12 to “test their skill” against #1.

That’s almost painful to think about. They wont own a single camp the entire match up. I’ll be surprised if they can break 2k points for the week.

OP is right. Scarlet has no place in the fractal and shoving this character down our throats, in fractals of all places, would just be an insult.

Members of the community have already expressed their distaste for the way this character was written and presented. She is fine on her own, but don’t make me see her every time I want to do fractals. Keep her in the living story and let her go no further.

Be. Creative. We aren’t getting the Fall of Abaddon fractal, so at least make Thaumanova special. Scarlet may or may not already be in the fractal, but when it’s released, the best possible move would be to have her not in it. She has absolutely no place there. I can’t think of any player in the entire game who would want her in the fractal.

Mooodster.3470:

people cried for months about boring matches fighting the same servers..gess what..you dont fight the same servers and now cry about lopsided matches…my question..wtf did you think was going to happen

The issue isn’t haven’t different servers to fight against, it’s having the difference in rank being way, way too high.

With a maximum difference between lowest and highest rank of 4 there is 4 different servers that you could be fighting each week. That’s enough randomization. It provides familiarity with your ‘tier’ and enough room for friendly rivalries, with the ability to keep things fresh. If your ranking goes up, you face a new server or two, if it goes down, same deal.

You should NEVER be fighting a server 7 ranks higher than you. It makes no sense.

Something has gone seriously wrong with ArenaNet’s match-up system lately. Just take a look at the attatched image.

We have:

Tier 1: Rank 1, Rank 3, Rank 4

This isn’t too bad. Essentially that’s tier 1 and 2 fighting.

Tier 2: Rank 6, Rank 5, Rank 2.

Look at the point difference. SoR has a 250k point lead. What the hell?
(Also, kudos to SoR for breaking 400k points. I didn’t realise this until Zikory pointed it out)

Tier 3: Rank 7, Rank 12, Rank 11.

This is getting to the point of insanity. You have a 5 rank gap between two servers. SoS is leading by 160k points!

Tier 4: Rank 14, Rank 9, Rank 8

Same as above. This is broken.

Tier 5 (my tier): Rank 10, Rank 15, Rank 17.

This is one of the biggest gaps. You have a SEVEN rank gap between servers and a FIVE rank gap between servers. It would be fine if it was NSP and IoJ and maybe another server, say DH maybe.

Tier 6: Rank 18, Rank 19, Rank 13.

Are you kidding?

Tier 7: Rank 20, Rank 22, Rank 24

The ONLY balanced tier. Look at their points. They’re all within a reasonable range of each other. I can’t speak for the players but it appears it was a decent match up with a challenge for all sides.

Tier 8: Rank 16, Rank 21, Rank 23.

Again, another stupidly large gap. This doesn’t make any sense.

Why are the current match-ups so broken? There is no competition at all. You’re either getting stomped or you’re stomping. It’s ridiculous.

The match ups SHOULD only have a maximum 3 rank difference between the highest and lowest server. Maybe 4 ranks depending on tier. We should be seeing servers who in their own right are in tier 3 fighting servers who are in tier 6. This doesn’t make sense.

Seriously? NSP and SBI fighting each other? It’s nuts!

ArenaNet needs to fix their match-up system. The randomization is great but it needs to be reasonable. Get it together ArenaNet

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Can we start a partition to get Konig hired at Anet, assuming he wants the position? Oh and Drax too!

The in-game mail system is broken. Can receive but not send. Period.

Trading post is also kind of broken. Have tried most fixes, none worked. Post patch and pre-patch issue.

Still broken. Tried both of this fixes listed above.

Both TRADING POST and MAIL SYSTEM are broken. Completely. Nothing will sell.

Appears to only be broken for some people. I had a friend send me mail and it worked, tried to reply and it gave me the issue. Can’t mail.

Will be making a mail system thread.

wildfang.9670:

even then using lifesteal food has a cd and is only a chance of 66% of crit with a very low return of 325 from a lvl 80 opponent or the only one ik of anyway. that’s not going to keep you over 90% alone. (you’ll be hit 2x likely before that effect takes effect)

i’m guessing sig of healing?
i will probably try it once i finsh my current gw2 project.

It makes a noticeable difference.

No, I run Healing Surge. I just play smart. Stand behind bosses, dodge at the right time, makes sure your party has some condition cleanse, etc.

wildfang.9670:

scholars is lower compared to ruby orbs every single bonus of scholars COMBINED is inferior the the same ruby orb. except if you factor in 10% from being over 90% health which as a zerk warrior will not be long. 1 hit likely maybe 2

Not really. It’s actually pretty easy to stay above 90%. I have 20k HP and am almost always above 18k. If I struggle, I’ll use lifesteal food

Disc > Strength = Tactics (situational) > Defence.

Unless you’re playing with bads (read: kittenty PVT/Condition scrubs), Discipline should always be your primary choice.

Only time strength is better is if your group is purely condition based, which would be absolutely kittened unless you’re all speccing into different conditions and even then…

I always assumed he was bugged. He hits twice for 8k on the leap and it has no tell.

What’s up with that? Is it a bug or no?

Either way, I rarely have issues with him. We usually just DPS him hard and res anyone who is unlucky enough to be the target of it.

JKFlipFlop.7123:

Oh look, Dejavu. Please be gentle StormHavensRest of Madness.

I laughed. Hard.

Cantha.

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Olba.5376:

Aberrant.6749:

@ Olba its good at brining people together… just not like minded people… who are looking for the same type of run/path/etc. If you want a stop and smell the roses party, then great! Go for it! Just don’t join a speed run and then expect everyone to wait for your sniffing.

As far as getting experience… youtube vids have commentary for every single dung plus you have guildmates/friends/other new people. Why would you force yourself onto the ONE group of people that doesn’t want you?

Well what if I have no choice since there are no other groups and all of my friends play too infrequently and I am not a part of a guild?

Because let me tell you, that has happened in other games. And it’s sure as hell the reason why I am not even bothering to try dungeons. I don’t like the idea of being treated with less humanity than a 16th century slave.

Then you join a guild and make new friends or wait till a regular group is LFM

You shouldn’t try to force yourself onto groups that have clearly specified they don’t want inexperienced players? Are you seriously expecting them not to be upset when you say “Hey guys this is my first time!” or worse yet, nothing at all?

You are at fault if you join a group that specifies it does not want inexperienced players.

Banzie.5248:

mexay.3902:

To make it perfectly clear…

I have no issue teaching people, but there is a time and place. A large amount of the community sees Arah P2 as a higher tier dungeon, not something that a casual would do.

I have no issue running with randoms. I do however have an issue with:

People who can’t play their class
People who can’t dodge
People who can’t understand new mechanics
People who join without reading the kittening description

The main issue is people joining without reading the description. I don’t expect everyone to be super elite mlg minmaxed full ascended extra super zerk full legendary scholar runes. I expect people to read the description. I expect people to use the tool correctly, not just ‘Hot join on enter’ and let anyone into the group.

The reason why people usually ask for what I said in OP, is because those people don’t want to have to teach people their class, the dungeon, the game mechanics, etc.

Like, I shouldn’t be having to explain to a level 80 Warrior why running 5 signets is garbage and asking them to change their build.

Don’t go flinging around the terms ‘elitist’ and things like that. It’s not about elitism, it’s about wanting to group with people who actually care about the people in their group. I.e “I’m not going to just semi-afk through the run because that would be unfair to the people in my party” things like that.

My (and others) reasoning for AP:

AP is a general indication for how long a player has been playing the game. Typically someone with ~3k AP has been playing long enough to understand most basic mechanics of the game. For example, you’ll usually look at someone with 0 – 500 AP and think they’re new. I’ve almost always been correct in assuming a player’s skill level based on their AP level. It simply comes down to experience over time. You don’t get 10,000 AP by being a scrub.

But me at I only have 2.5k exp and I consider myself a pretty decent player in wvw when I can 2/3v1 and win. lol anyways but kitten dude. You started some flame war in here :p xD

Bloody scrub Karn. I only asked for AP because I was unsure about the LFG system and didn't want to get grouped with people that don't know how to dodge

Lampshade.7569:

mexay.3902:

Lampshade.7569:

My experience was good therefore anyone else who has a bad experience is lying

I can change quotes and twist words to fit my purpose too.

Well played, Sir, but might I remind you that you, based apparently only on your own experience, stated “It doesn’t work”?

Your next point: The people using it are not using it correctly.
Well maybe you could teach them how to use it correctly, instead of, as I suspect, showering them with insults and kicking them without explanation.

True.

My point is that it doesn’t work as intended. I’ve had good experiences with it, but more so very bad experiences. People simply don’t read the message and hit ‘Join’

I get people wanting story mode when I listed for an explorable.

In order to function correctly it needs to be changed. You need to have an ‘accept’ function. As outlined in this thread there are clearly people who do not want just anyone joining groups. Obviously there are others who disagree and think you should let anyone and everyone join, but they’re disillusioned or are upset they aren’t in the ‘kool kidz klub’.

Lampshade.7569:

My experience was good therefore anyone else who has a bad experience is lying

I can change quotes and twist words to fit my purpose too.

Berner.7289:

As soon as you use the LFG tool, its not your group and you’re not the leader. The sooner you learn that, the less whiny you’ll be on the forums.

Except you’re wrong. It IS my group. I put the post up. I am opening the dungeon, I am organising it. I get to dictate who joins, as long as the current members of the party agree.

If I start a group with my friend to do CoE path 2 and we agree that we want zerker only, experienced players and no necromancer, it is our choice. We get to decide whether you are part of that or not. If we decide not to allow those people in our group, we get to. The point is that we specifically asked for no non-zerk and no newbies and no necromancer and we expect that the people who join fit within our criteria, if they don’t we kick them. No complaints.

I don’t see the issue. We have every right to say we do or do not want particular people in our group. That is part of MMOs.

People here are missing the point. It’s not about being ‘elitist’

It’s about people reading and allowing the group leader to accept invites. Plain and simple.

You are all totally missing the point, unless you think I should party with anyone and everyone. Even people running full white gear, one weapon set, no traits selected and only 2 utilities unlocked? I should just teach them, otherwise I’m a bad person?

No. That is not what MMOs or even GW2 is about and it never has been.

To make it perfectly clear…

I have no issue teaching people, but there is a time and place. A large amount of the community sees Arah P2 as a higher tier dungeon, not something that a casual would do.

I have no issue running with randoms. I do however have an issue with:

People who can’t play their class
People who can’t dodge
People who can’t understand new mechanics
People who join without reading the kittening description

The main issue is people joining without reading the description. I don’t expect everyone to be super elite mlg minmaxed full ascended extra super zerk full legendary scholar runes. I expect people to read the description. I expect people to use the tool correctly, not just ‘Hot join on enter’ and let anyone into the group.

The reason why people usually ask for what I said in OP, is because those people don’t want to have to teach people their class, the dungeon, the game mechanics, etc.

Like, I shouldn’t be having to explain to a level 80 Warrior why running 5 signets is garbage and asking them to change their build.

Don’t go flinging around the terms ‘elitist’ and things like that. It’s not about elitism, it’s about wanting to group with people who actually care about the people in their group. I.e “I’m not going to just semi-afk through the run because that would be unfair to the people in my party” things like that.

My (and others) reasoning for AP:

AP is a general indication for how long a player has been playing the game. Typically someone with ~3k AP has been playing long enough to understand most basic mechanics of the game. For example, you’ll usually look at someone with 0 – 500 AP and think they’re new. I’ve almost always been correct in assuming a player’s skill level based on their AP level. It simply comes down to experience over time. You don’t get 10,000 AP by being a scrub.

I’m keen, chuck me an invite. I have a Commander tag too, if needed.

Looking to do turret work, mainly.

So I’ve already had significant difficulties with the LFG tool. It doesn’t work. Sure, the functionality is there and it’s great, however…

The people using it are not using it correctly. People put up posts with nothing in it. People simply join groups without reading the post.

We need to place better restrictions on it. Hell just something like accepting people before they join. I had FIVE different players join my group multiple times for Arah Path 2, just now and they clearly hadn’t read the party message. It clearly stated:

EXP ONLY. 3k+ AP path 2 Arah. Speed run. . No PVT.

Now, I don’t like to be ‘that guy’ but I’m one of those players who likes to get things done with minimal kitten -ing about. That means I ask for experienced players who know what they’re doing, running decent gear, who are likely to understand mechanics.

The lfg tool functions, but it doesn’t work. I should be able to accept someone before they enter. Let me see their class and achievement points before they join. Chances are if I’m looking for an Arah P2 run and someone with 500 achievement points joins, they aren’t going to know the run.

The tool is, in it’s current state, a Pile of Putrid Essence for anyone who is looking for an experienced group.