We been saying walls are death traps and favor more the attackers than the defenders for a while now, but they remain silent about it.
I think they are terrified of killing WvW, understandably, so they offer nonsense like “repair hammers” and call it progress.
Why are repair hammers nonsense? It ends up using less supply that rebuilding the siege. Shrug
To the OP, no – how it works now is fine. No restrictions necessary.
Am in NSP and we’ve been paired with SoS for several weeks. Up against YB this week, and are…surprised…and their lack of organization. We thought we would be in for it all week. Is odd. From what I am reading in this thread, I see why now. It’s too bad.
Serious question: do a lot of people still play in the HoT maps? I haven’t been in one in ages except DS – was farming Crystalline Ore to buy a Guild recipe for a greatsword (I thought the skin was cool – then I saw what I needed to make it and now I’m all “meh”). I saw one attempt at the meta that failed because there was not, in anyway, enough people.
This is one of the concerns I had about the HoT maps. Once people got what they wanted, would they return? So, the ones that are playing in them, have you noticed a decrease in populations?
Well, there is, right now, this one that has a blade (three actually – double blade on top, and one below):
One thing I would like to see, along with many of the changes mentioned already, is the ability to block specific accounts from pulling the tactivators. So a guild could mark a user account as unable to pull the lever, but leave the tactivator public.
Yeah. For someone with no knowledge of GW1, this “reveal” had no impact on me. Something shows up called Lazarus and then there’s mention of a dragon called Primordius or something (I assumed a dragon). The Lazarus bit was confusing. Here I am preparing for an epic battle and…it’s gone. Some talk about Mursaats went over my head as well.
As a GW1 vet, this ignorance almost makes me want to cry. I wish I could share with you what I know, but the only way to truly understand is by playing it – which we both know won’t happen.
I started to read about Lazarus, just because I wanted to know what the fuss was about. Very interesting. But it’s like walking into Empire Strikes Back at the Darth Vader scene when he reveals who is to Luke – but never having watched any Star Wars beforehand.
Yeah. For someone with no knowledge of GW1, this “reveal” had no impact on me. Something shows up called Lazarus and then there’s mention of a dragon called Primordius or something (I assumed a dragon). The Lazarus bit was confusing. Here I am preparing for an epic battle and…it’s gone. Some talk about Mursaats went over my head as well.
So I lose my +4 Condi damage and can now have a buff from 4 things which have no value to me at all.
Adding insult to injury, I get back the infusion, not the laurels it cost me.
Strangely the joy of this is lost on me entirely.
Not one of the better changes thank you.No, you gain up to 12 condi damage because you can now put them in attuned and infused rings. Before you could only get 2 +4/5 infusions. Now you can do up to 3 in each ring. Your stats go up, not down.
Wait, wait. So you’re saying you can get more by using the attuned slots? I thought the attuned slot was just for AR only. Also, I thought you can only get +5 attributes on the infusions. How are you figuring +12 condi for each trinket?
Disclaimer: I strictly WvW and never got into the Fractal/AR thing. Just purchased my infusions from the WvW laurel merchant. Sorry for my ignorance. I’m going to have to go back and re-read those notes. I normally skip past Fractal stuff.
Attuned gives a slot
Infused gives another slotAll slots are the same now so you can fill everything with +5 and +1% damage against or -1% damage taken infusions.
You will need to do some fractals for the infused slot.
Yeah, sorry. Just found out how easy it is to Attune. I always thought you had to go from Ascended to Infused to Attuned. Adding one more slot is way, way easier/cheaper. All good now.
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So, for one ring, not bad. For someone who, say, wants to infuse 5 rings, that’s a max of 36g 80s and a whopping 3750 fractal relics.
If you don’t do fractals at all, this is daunting. Why a Fractal Reward Track wasn’t added in WvW I have no idea.
Answering my own post. Apparently, you can “attune” an Ascended ring – which will cost almost nothing to do – and give you another slot:
This is only a good change if you do Fractals. If you don’t, it’s pretty much a slap in the face.
Well AR slots are for Fractals so…
Absolutely no such thing as AR slots anymore. All trinkets, other than Amulets, have slots that can hold any Infusion. Attuning a Ring, for instance, adds slots, into which you can put whatever infusion you want, AR or not.
Seriously. I suck at this game. Slow reflexes I guess. This was the easiest to solo LS ever. Yeah, the Justicar battle was odd until I realized what I had to do. Then it was simple and she dropped fast.
Sorry, but if you find this difficult, LS2 must have been a nightmare for you.
It’s a spoiler. Some people, like me avoided all that stuff in order to enjoy the story unspoiled. Luckily for me, I played it before you posted.
How…how is this a spoiler? It’s a name. That’s it. Do you think that if this were revealed in a movie, that the audience would gasp or cheer the name when it was announced. I fail to see how this is in anyway a spoiler.
Here are some things that are equally “spoilers”:
Some NPCs use a bow, others use swords. There’s even enemies that will attack you and stuff you have to mine and/or collect. Oh, as well, you will have some long talky scenes you can’t skip.
This is only a good change if you do Fractals. If you don’t, it’s pretty much a slap in the face.
The other issue with Staff is in WvW…for some reason it doesn’t hit downed enemies (except skill 1, of course).
I don’t understand why people think this is cheaper and easier. You still have to get enough Fractal Relics to buy the mist essences (1 shard, 3 globs, and 5 vials) you need to turn an Ascended Ring into an Infused Ring.
From the INFUZ-5959 Vendor in the Fractals of the Mist, these essences cost:
- Vial of Condensed Mists Essence 32s + 30 Fractal Relics
- Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence 96s + 100 Fractal Relics
- Shard of Crystallized Mists Essence 2g 88s + 300 Fractal Relics
So, for to infuse one ring you need to spend 7g 36s (maximum – since you need to do fractals to get the relics, you might get these in a drop). You also need to have 750 fractal relics. Not sure how many you can get on run or how long it takes. I actually have done a few so have about 400 – a guildie wanted someone to fill out their party. I was next to useless, having no AR.
So, for one ring, not bad. For someone who, say, wants to infuse 5 rings, that’s a max of 36g 80s and a whopping 3750 fractal relics.
If you don’t do fractals at all, this is daunting. Why a Fractal Reward Track wasn’t added in WvW I have no idea.
[…]It absolutely needed to be changed, and probably should have been changed with earlier Fractal changes.
I think that’s the crucial point. Though the old system wasn’t very intuitive people got used to it over time since there was no sign of change anywhere. Now out of a sudden there’s a massive revamp and many people are upset, even though the new system makes much more sense.
That’s just human nature, most peoples reaction is denial when new stuff comes around that somewhat affects their lives, even it’s just a part of their hobby.
As soon as people calm down and figure out the KickzNGigglez way, there won’t be much complaining anymore.tl;dr: if there’s anything to throw at A.Net, it’s that they let the old infusion system go on for so long and their obligatory lack of information beforehand. If they told everyone 2 weeks ago, we’d already have had this discussion and ppl would actually realize, that the new system ain’t that bad after all
Sigh. It ONLY makes sense for people who run fractals. That’s it.
In all of these threads I keep seeing WvW players complaining that they lost a slot in the neck piece. Do none of you realize that you gained 4 slots on the rings and therefore went up 3 slots in total?
And once again, unless you do Fractals, a lot, there’s no way to GET those 3 slots “in total”. You do know this, right?
The LS was okay. A bit messy graphically, but that’s more my issue with my crappy GPU than anything else. A bit short, but I hope it picks up in the next part.
The battles were well structured, unlike some during LS2.
The QoL changes for Necros (my main) were, I think, not all that “quality of life-ish”. Still no way to get away at all. Would be nice to have a port somehow.
The Amulet changes were the worst part of this patch, for me. I now have 6 infusions I can’t use and need to slot an Amulet with something I don’t need in WvW.
I don’t like the push to do fractals (in order to open up more slots on the other trinkets). Provide a Fractal Reward Track in WvW and all will be well.
Well, I have now a +7 agony infusion and an amulet slot. I tried to put the +7 AR into the amulet but it was not possible. What are you saying about ANY SLOT?
On the other hand, in the morning I had 150 AR on my gear. After the patch I have only 143. If I want to do now the lvl 99 fractal, I will be 6 AR short. So, I have to do something (to work) to achieve the same lvl I had before the patch. They give us the +7 AR back? Is useless. I want my Fractal Relics I spent on it back.https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/INFUZ-5959
You can get the relics back if it was a simple infusion so actually they did compensate us. Amulets now only accept Enrichments which are basically the old utility infusions and can be bought from the laurel vendor.
You are totally missing the point. What if you don’t do fractals? I don’t have any AR at all. None. Zip. I don’t do fractals. What I do have is 6 infusions I can’t use and 6 amulets with no infusions because I don’t want to spend 20+ laurels on “enrichment” ones. I primarily WvW. Enrichment infusions aren’t really all that useful.
Yeah. Having the same issue. A lot of freezing issues with the 64 bit client, so I load, or try to load, the 32 bit. But it keeps switching me to 64. How do I ensure ONLY the 32 bit client runs?
UPDATE: nevermind. Found it. Just add -32 to the command line.
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LOL I hate threads like this, and I dislike reading them. Watch this video and you will understand why, it doesn’t matter and its actually a buff not a nerf.
But ONLY if you do fractals. Otherwise this is impossible, right? The only way to get the mists essences required is to either get them in fractals, or by purchasing them from the 595 vendor golem – for Fractal Relics – which you get by…you guessed it…via Fractals.
I don’t do fractals. I hate fractals. Hate them. Don’t want to do them. So now what?
Max AR Fractal players got kittened.
Compensate the players for their loses.
……You REALLY did not read the patch notes did you? Agony infusions can now go into ANY SLOT. No need to compensate people when they gave people the ability to “fix” it along with the kittening patch.
This right here folks is a classic case of someone who needs to RTFPN.
So what if we don’t have any use for Agony Infusions? What if you play only WvW (along with some basic PvE) and have no need to AR? Yours is a classic case of someone who needs to comprehend the larger picture.
Overall the change to infusions and the slots was hugely beneficial and helpful to players who are newer to fractals. So at least for me this was a pretty awesome change, still confused about the amulet slot though. I don’t know what can go in it, where I can get those infusions, or why the hell it was singled out to be separate.
You buy the Enrichments from the Laurel vendor, it’s with the other infusions (second tab).
At 4 times the cost of, you know, infusions that make sense when you actually play the game.
Horrible, horrible decision by Anet not to refund the laurels, at least. In fact, they should let us trade in all the Ascended Amulets for total refunds of all Laurels spent to get them. Better to spend Laurels on something else that doesn’t need “enrichment” infusions.
Just replace them with Exotic ones that are at a fraction of the price.
Did they at the very least refund the currency that was spent on infusions ?
I seriously hope they didn’t over look that part of the scenario while bending us over and going in dry.
Nope. They just gave you the infusions back. That’s it. I now have a pile of infusions I can’t sell, salvage, or use.
Anet hasn’t learned a thing. How does a Magic Find infusion help in WvW? I now have 6 infusions I can’t use because Anet couldn’t be bothered to refund the laurels as they should have. Huge mistake on the part of Anet…again…especially as it relates to people who primarily WvW…again.
I will be kitten ed if I pay 20+ laurels for an “enrichment” infusion.
Yeah. Yet another change that Anet did not think through. I would rather have the laurels. And where do you get enrichment infusions? They aren’t in the Laurel Merchant in WvW
Sorry. Just what changes to axe did we ask for that they addressed? When you cast Ghastly Claws – there’s a channeling. This channeling time has been decreased, which means less damage. Did someone in the Necro forum ask for this? How is this a good thing?
The damage will be the same on axe, but it will be dished out quicker. This is good and bad because if you CC someone or surprise them, you can do the full “burst” without them being able to react, which is a good thing. On the other hand, one dodge can negate a lot of the damage. I think it’s overall a good change because long channels suck and skillful use of CC+burst will be rewarded.
Same for dagger – same amount of healing and damage on a shorter channel.
Ah. That makes sense. Thank you.
A lot of these changes were asked, so thanks Anet.
That’s not the important changes that everyone here wait for but we asked for those axe/focus/BiP/spectral skills change.Maybe next patch you could teach the golem how to swim? Work a little on DS AA, dark path…? Work on those grandmaster traits with unpracticable effect?
Sorry. Just what changes to axe did we ask for that they addressed? When you cast Ghastly Claws – there’s a channeling. This channeling time has been decreased, which means less damage. Did someone in the Necro forum ask for this? How is this a good thing?
This is too funny. Unless I am mistaken, and I admit I threw up a little in my mouth and had to stop reading, take a look at all the buffs Mesmers got! Is Anet sane?
Might be with you all there. This has gotten ridiculous. Perma-stealth thieves and mesmers…and yet no real QoL for necros. No leap abilities, no port abilities, no real charge abilities except for Reaper Shroud skill 2. If we are in danger, we are screwed.
The fact that a necro doesn’t have some sort of stealth (Walk Through Shadows) is ridiculous.
I blame PvP for these changes. Nothing else makes sense.
How can it be a a QoL patch when they touched up unused skills that will still be unused after?
They could have at least reduced the baseline DS degeneration, nerfed Vital Persistence of a matching amount, so Spectral Mastery finally was a viable choice.As usual what works got nerfed.
My thoughts exactly. QoL patch? I don’t think they know what that means.
How about letting Marks hit downed enemies in WvW? Every other AOE from every other class does, why not Necros?
And the nerf to Rise? Really? What made them think that was required.
Horrible patch for Necros, yet again.
To Anet: does ANYONE on the staff main a Necro? Anyone? Especially in WvW?
Sometime last week, I jumped into DS to see what was happening, and hit up the vendor. A meta just finished, and failed. People were incredulous, given the texts flying back and forth in map chat. Incredulous and quite upset. Not sure what happened, ‘natch, since I wasn’t involved, but it seems a couple of islands blew up. So, yeah, it failed and, therefore, isn’t “successfully completed all the time.”
2700+ hours, dunno how many days (at work right now and can’t check), 12500+ points…and finally, finally got an ascended chest: Beigarth’s Armor Chest. That’s it. Never got a precursor.
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Napoleon was not short. But it doesn’t matter because he is apparently adorable in Quaggan form. I would pay twice the normal mini rate for Admiral Quaggan.
Yeah. He was estimated at, what, 5’ 6" – so average height for the times?
Relatively easy solution. Your slot is held for a certain period of time…say…30-45secs. If you log back in by then, you get your slot in the map back.
Ye mb a log on 3rd tab of the keep/tower so people can see which guild put tactivator in and who is using it. Then the guild that has the objective claimed can just ban the person using a tactivator from any of their claimed objectives.
I said exactly this in map chat the other day after someone pulled the tactivator. Should be a log, and an announcement “<Troll Character Name> pulled the Chilling Fog at Garrison” or something. Then, if necessary, the person can be blocked from pulling a tactivator at all.
Though, cheaters will always prosper. Troll Guild will claim a location and make the tactivator private – thus never pull it.
I’m not here to disagree with you but I want to point out that the DBL could potentially be used as a balancing factor. Note the high ppt that the green servers have generally now which means they are pretty far ahead of their peers. DBL could be used as a balancing weak point and be given to the Green server in all tiers.
I think the other way around. The DBL will be easier to defend, because no one will want to go in it. It should be given to the lowest team, glicko-wise, in a matchup.
As has been explained multiple times, the devs have already said that the “no vote” entries are going to be discarded in the final count. The arithmetic is very simple. Out of the actual votes, simultaneous currently has a 78.6% share.
Oh. Forgot about that! Thanks. That’s awesome news.
Also I doubt we would ever get a new map if DBL was shot down.
So…you believe Anet would virtually stomp their feet, frown, and take their ball and go home if we voted down the DBL?
Wonderful. Right now the 2 Alpines/1 DBL only has 74.9% of the vote…and needs, what. 75% to pass? Sigh.
One more nail in the coffin of WvW. What can’t the people who voted the other way see that?
But TBH. I really like that JQ always has scout everywhere. I always encounter JQ scout all the time (yep, JQ got impressive fast respond). This is what other server are kinda lack off.
You can afford scouts only if you have the numbers to do so.
Cannot wait to see the kitten -end of JQ. They must feel so proud wiping 5 with 30. Perhaps this is to compensate for something lacking in their real lives, I have no idea. Holy crap, this has been a frustrating week. SoS/NSP vs SBI/HoD would be pretty good, but throw the JQ blobfest in there pretty much 24/7 and, man, Anet could not have picked a worse matchup unless they sent BG our way.
Buy the exotic insignia/inscription recipe and stat-swap your ascended armor/weapons in the mystic forge.
What he said. If you don’t have a set of ascended, make the one with the cheapest mats, then make the exotic Trailblazer insignia/inscription – whichever armor you have. Then just swap the stats in the Mystic Forge.
Much easier (and cheaper) – though, the mats for the insignia are crazy (you will need 18 Maguuma lillies, and they aren’t cheap). Plus Hardened Leather – also not cheap. If you are making inscriptions (for Heavy Armor) is cheaper since orichalcum can be farmed via nodes. The leather can’t be, ’natch.
Tier 2 and 3 are off this week because JQ rolled down to t3 taking mags place, we’ll have to wait next week to see if the servers roll into their own tiers to see if those servers were matched properly. Tier 4 is off because of that 4 link.
But these matchups/pairings only change every couple of months, not weekly. Or has that changed?
The linked pairings change every 2 months, the matchups change every week and it’s based on your server’s glicko rating and the random variance added when matchups are rolled. JQ is a T2 server matched with two T3 servers, Mags is a T3 server matched with two T2 servers this week.
So give it another week and see if those servers roll into their own proper tiers and see if the tier is balanced then. There’s obviously still a big divide in population and coverage between tiers so the unbalanced matches will still happen.
Thank you. That makes sense. The pairings are for the couple of months, but matchups will change. Makes sense.
Tier 2 and 3 are off this week because JQ rolled down to t3 taking mags place, we’ll have to wait next week to see if the servers roll into their own tiers to see if those servers were matched properly. Tier 4 is off because of that 4 link.
But these matchups/pairings only change every couple of months, not weekly. Or has that changed?
The worst pairing is JQ fighting anyone else in our tier (NSP or HoD). They outnumber us constantly. At first, the fights were fun. Not so much. The week is barely 3 days old and it’s already tedious.
JQ actually having fun?
I would love to meet the person at Anet that thought this pairing/matchup was in any way sane.
JQ is a T2 server that rolled a T3 match. I don’t think you can consider this normal for your pairing. Maguuma lost rating while JQ is going up in rating this week, Mag and JQ will switch places again Friday and you’ll be back up in T2 losing to kittenain in no time lol..
By “you’ll be back up in T2” I assume you mean JQ? Good riddance if that happens. So we won’t be facing weeks of this. This is now going to change weekly?
The server pairing I believe is going to be monthly but I’m not sure if ANet is committed to that or if it will still be quarterly.
Thanks for the reply. Ugh. I am really not looking forward to even another day against JQ.
This isn’t a refutation of anyone’s post, but I would like to say I think it’s great Anet has the stones to try something new.
This is another example of Anet getting feedback from the community (linking T1 servers is unnecessary) and using that feedback. Is this the perfect solution to that problem? Probably not, but it’s a step in the right direction.
In two months when they relink servers, they will have more data points to see what worked and what didn’t work for giving everyone a fun match. Population balance is an issue, but they’ve used feedback on server linking, borderlands, etc., I would like to believe they are exploring options for population balance as well.
So, we have 2 more months of these matchups? For real? Someone mentioned in another topic that we will be switching at the end of the week. Guess not.
Oh, well. There’s always South Park: Stick of Truth. Getting it from Steam now.
The worst pairing is JQ fighting anyone else in our tier (NSP or HoD). They outnumber us constantly. At first, the fights were fun. Not so much. The week is barely 3 days old and it’s already tedious.
JQ actually having fun?
I would love to meet the person at Anet that thought this pairing/matchup was in any way sane.
JQ is a T2 server that rolled a T3 match. I don’t think you can consider this normal for your pairing. Maguuma lost rating while JQ is going up in rating this week, Mag and JQ will switch places again Friday and you’ll be back up in T2 losing to kittenain in no time lol..
By “you’ll be back up in T2” I assume you mean JQ? Good riddance if that happens. So we won’t be facing weeks of this. This is now going to change weekly?
What made them pair HOD and SBI with each other
HOD was winning and now we are paired with SBI like we owned t4 so I don’t get it just merge the dam servers and let people transferHOD + SBI seems to be a great pair to go against SOS + NSP. This is a really balanced pair, sure one will be ahead of the otehr at times, but once the dust settles things will become more balanced and less volatile. Neither is good to go against JQ though as JQ still vastly outnumbers both across most timezones it seems.
Once JQ goes up and another link drops down that is closer in numbers, things should become a lot more interesting, and they are actually not that bad now.
I agree. If we could just tell JQ to go take off and leave us alone, SBI+HoD and SoS+NSP is a great matchup.
But JQ have something to prove, apparently.