Absolutely rubbish, it must be a slow news days for Massively, they obviously want to stir things up so they get more views. None of the points raised are actually valid.
Yeah they are, some of what he wrote isn’t correct but some definitely is: The story is weak; and there are clear issues with crafting around loot drops that don’t enable you to level crafting organically.
I was saying it should just be a flat rate per event as it is with karma and money.
But then they may as well just use karma as currency. The issue to me is the drop rate compared to the prices of items that can be bought with badges its way out of whack, if they reduced those prices to match the drop rate it would be fine.
And this would seem to be the way ANet wants you to play this game. One of the game designers even said that.
The way I see it ATM is that the more you move around the better the average loot you will get. Farming is OK, however, NOT IN THE SAME SPOT OVER AND OVER.
This is the way I understand what ANet is trying to do.
This is what they originally said but with eg. the nerfs to plinx and jormag its not how its working now.
The answer is simple: tune the loot system so that players feel rewarded for playing the game. Given the way the game is monetized, tuning the loot system will not be simple as there are countervailing forces at play, but tune it they must as people play games to have fun and experiencing reward is the bedrock of having fun.
This, so much this. Its definitely skewed to much away from this.
DR is in place so that players don’t find ( or do) shortcuts to stacks of materials by spamming mobs over and over. If DR wasn’t there people would simply pick one spot and exploit it to death to get loads of materials and screwing over the entire game economy.
Prices on those items would drop so if that counts as screwing over the economy……………
I don’t get anything except a coin and karma boost for weeks now. There is no point to loot in this game. I am now sticking to WvW for the PvP aspect because that is the only thing keeping me here. If I played this game only for loot I would have quit weeks ago when things began to dry up. 23 Jan for a certain release date is looking really good atm…
I’m pretty close to this and also dungeon runs with guildies.
its a different game and they’ve tried to not make it exactly like gw1 for obvious reasons
Yeah but thats no excuse for not having guild enhancements and management tools that GW1 had. Large guilds are extremely hard to administer. It seem silly that the guild stuff just wasn’t ported straight across.
I’ve come up against the same issue. To farm the ingredients would require a stupidly large investment of time far far more than required for any other set.
The drop rates for the ingredients need to be increased its not like this is an ascended set or has unique looks.
Swirling Winds requires a team of ele’s to completely do nothing else except rotate spamming Swirling Winds.
It’s honestly very strategical and should definitely remain ingame.
This, unless the ele is specced high in air it needs 3 eles for complete coverage.
Its sad but true, victory and a good fight is not enough for some players. So my idea is that why not increase the rate of rare drops in W3? nothing to extreme but enough to get regular players in and get them to stop whining about repair costs.
I agree.
Re the NPC issue have better drop rates be simply on player kills not NPC kills.
shhh quiet or it’ll bee fixed :p
Just in case they do read this, the guardian’s shield bubble can be used to the same effect…
If we’re going down, I’m making sure we’re taking guardians down with us :P
Thieves as well with smokescreen.
Yes I agree with the whole concept of making money to keep it (game) alive, however there seems to be a big shift towards making more money than making the game enjoyable. You need balance, but at the moment, it feels like its more about the money. Sooner or later major corporation/firms/groups tend to put too much focus on and strive to achieve this (money) when they smell fresh meat – and I ain’t fresh meat, I can tell you that.
Yep and IMHO anet has passed that point, it looks like they are trying to force players onto the TP and paying for gold as a result.
The DR/drop nerfs are actually a very bad thing.
You get less for the time invested and actually have to grind more to survive in an economy where so many people got rich before all the new restrictions came about.
This, this is the practicality of the situation that anet won’t acknowledge.
Plus there’s also the fact of drops being low enough that levelling crafting in the normal course of playing the game is impossible, forcing players onto the TP for mats. This does not lead to happy players.
The whole thing is incredibly misconceived.
After all Anet does encourage us to explore Tyria.
You mean try to force us to play the game the way they want us to.
Won’t be solid until they fix culling and get rid of the stupid DR system.
This aggravates me as well, I would think adding more flexibility to the function would be better instead of taking it away. If this is not a bug then I think their time would have been better spent adding the preview function to the trading post not removing it from items you cant wear but want to see on a gender/race combo.
This, what a stupid thing to spend any time at all on.
Anet designed this game around the Dynamic Event system as the end game. Time and again I read in the forums that there is no end game or request for more dungeons and raids.
I have yet to see people posting or organizing DE runs.
My guild has. The issue is the DR and nerfing loot drops. Why spend time in the open world when that happens?
I agree the game is based around it and its a great system but every decision anet makes seems designed around forcing people away from it and into fractals and dungeons. It also doesn’t help that they give us a new lvl 80 area and do kitten all with it.
I can see the reason for culling when its zerg vs zerg but if culling is impacting my game when its 5 vs 5 or even 1 vs 1 then its poor programming.
This, it even happens out of combat for me.
It seems to me that the market is a bit too much “regulated”, what do you think?
I think its 100% regulated which is probably bad for buyers.
I personally don’t feel it’s the GOTY, but good luck to you GW2/Anet.
This. Too many problems to be GOTY.
There will be no response because its deliberate. Look at what they’ve done to the jormag events there’s now virtually no loot apart from the chest even after the patch.
If the reasons anet are doing it is not because of the cash shop then they are so misguided its not funny (heck even if its because of the cash shop they are misguided but its at least an understandable reason), we need a reasonable carrot to keep playing.
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Why is this arenanet’s response to everything? An event that can be farmed, nerf it. This just beggars belief.
Doesn’t the map limit apply to all sides?
Longer cooldown, could make thieves absolutely worthless at everything but quick kills to single targets. Any hits to stealth does hurt a bit to burst builds, but it hurts non-burst builds 10 times worse.
So make it a trade off, burst or stealth, one or the other not both. Even games like swtor, as bad as its class balancing was, made this adjustment to stealth classes.
It is funny how almost non of the sigils actually work with kits, and they nerfed the damage of the grenade kit, and said it was because of sigils.
Is that a bug? Which sigils work with kits?
Nope, it’s simply that ANET knows that in any game with any kind of competition, there are going to those who can’t deal and complain.
Not really, ANET have already stated WvW is “for fun”, the competition is in tPvP, which is where of course they balance PvP for, which results in unblanced classes in WvW, which causes people to complain that mainly play WvW.
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Except they can balance for tPVP separately if they want they just choose not to with most balance changes, which is a mistake because balance in tPVP in vastly different to WvW and PVE.
The key concept is trading survivability for burst. I feel that trade isn’t made; stealth accomplishes both.
Key concept should be trading burst for stealth, its the obvious way to go for thieves. The aoe thing only works if you do it around yourself otherwise thieves will just get out of it. What are we not meant to kill thieves only put aoes down to drive them away.
Ebay camping YB spawn point in maguuma BL, very classy move guys.
No buffs to staff or scepter. A lot of trait stuff going on. And underwater stuff…
I guess some people will never be happy.
Why should those of us who choose to play staff or scepter be happy when D/D receives buffs (which were not needed) but we receive nothing specifically.
I disagree with the plan fix for “alt+f4/DC” just because you are in combat.
Simple scenario: I treb (maximum power) and hit a NPC/Player which put me in combat. Suddenly I DC-ed (maybe connection error, client crash, blue screen) before this “in combat” status dissipates. After I log in, I found my character died. Seriously died because you hit NPC/Player 10,000 units away from you and DC !!! Bravo….. (dunno if that player get exp/loot).
Thats an outlier so does it really matter? You get some minor repair cost so what, the other guy wouldn’t get anything cause he hasn’t landed a blow on you.
Personally, I don’t think WvW rankings mean anything whatesoever. They could name the brackets Frank, Ted, Wilson, Mary, Julie, etc. and it would make no difference to me (though I’m sure people would still put weight on the random name that corresponds to the group with the highest Glicko). All I think the system does is attempt to match worlds up that are as closely aligned as possible with regard to their WvWvW variables (total population, coverage, coordination, etc.). When that is achieved, the system succeeds, because matches are interesting when they aren’t total blow-outs. More people play across all servers that are even,
Maybe but stagnation itself leads to people stopping participating as happened with YB by the 3rd week of the same matchup in Tier 3. Its an issue with this system.
My issue with thieves is:
High damage
Mobility
StealthSomethings gotta go, because they’re really annoying to fight.
There’s got to be more give and take, if they want stealth then they have low damage.
Thanks for confirming you just glitched into the keep. If you jump past a wall/gate, you are exploiting.
Nope, you’re misunderstanding what I’m saying.
Unless you had 2 mesmers in there, you cannot legitimately snipe a keep in the span of a minute.
Yeah you can at least the Hills keep you can..
Dear [TOG] guild from Yaks:
Couldn’t take east keep in Maguuma borderland legitimately so you had to glitch into it? Seriously? And if you are gonna do it, at least learn to defend properly.
Given Maguuma’s use of exploits this is a bit rich. Anyway as one of the players ported in so far as we know the mesmer had been hiding inside since the previous assault on SH. If you’ve got any evidence of anything different then please provide it.
Whats funny is that we did the exact same ninja job on SH in YBBL just minutes earlier. 2 SH ninja jobs within 15 minutes of each other.
Did some Orr farming for the first time in a while and averaged less than blue. TP has skyrocketing prices all because of this. Is this what the devs want?
As others have said levelling is actually fast so long as you;re participating in taking objectives. I can gain 3 levels in under 2 hours.
Alt+F4 is no escape…
Why not instead leave the character of the player in the game for 10-20 seconds, vulnerable to attacks? This alternative method seems to be well established in plenty of similar online games, as it would avoid issues like being stuck in combat state without actually being attacked. If no enemy manages to kill this player within the time-frame, then no one should get any loot or death penalty.
(first, it’s awesome we’re getting these updates for Christmas, <333’s)
Exactly. While the penalty sounds like a satisfyingly brutal “F U” to ALT-F4’rs from Arenanet, this just totally sucks for people that legitimately disconnect.
Sometimes my computer just reboots for no reason, do I get the death penalty? Sometimes the client crashes. Death penalty? Sometimes my cable modem just disconnects. What then?
The penalties are negligible so does it really matter? 1 piece of armor to be repaired is what, between 1 and 2 silver at lvl 80.
Did you even test this…?
They don’t have a test server.
I write this as a disgruntled member of Fort Aspenwood and the guild [PRO]:
The past few weeks became increasingly irritating because Yak’s Bend was repeatedly choosing to fight us rather than TC. All this served to do was secure victory for TC and incite our retaliation. With them being dropped a tier and CD being bumped up for the week, the potential for change was there. Sadly, it appears that we’ve become the new YB. Rather than attempting to challenge TC, we instead have chosen another week of futility.
The most disturbing part however isn’t the result, but rather the cause. YB simply refused to play ball with us and instead undermined every attempt we made to hit TC.
This is in fact utter kitten, from the YB POV the opposite was happening. When you first came up into T3 in the BL I was in we tried to leave you alone but you wouldn’t co-operate. This culminated in last weeks matchup where whenever you saw us going against TC you chose to try and take advantage of us rather than use it to try and bring down TC.
As was said in the thread last week if sides attack your borderlands rather than TCs its because your defence is poor compared to TC not because they’re deliberately going out of their way to undermine FA.
Please Anet rethink you policy on economic restraints. All you are achieving is alienation of your userbase, the very people that would buy your future expansions.
DR means GW2 has become a job not a game! You are draining my in game finances at every turn I take while removing the ability to sustain and grow.
I want to use waypoints to help friends and guildies and to explore and imerse myself in tyria – why do you put a price on that? This breaks the community spirit and leaves your maps empty.
I want to explore in depth each character with different sets of armor, I want to spend hours learning the styles and nuances of each profession, but alas I cannot afford to do this. Why would you wish to stonewall the very people that want to play this game for many years to come?
I want a cash shop for things I consider to be fun and entertaining, not for game dynamics that should be there in the first place!
Quoted because this is well said and deserves emphasising as to how people want to play the game and are being prevented from doing so.
I’ve got a level 45 flamethrower/grenade engy and I do fine in WvW. The grenades are useful in sieges due to the long range, and in skirmishes the flamethrower nets me lots of bags, its extremely good at tagging enemies.
The tankcat build seems to work extremely well in WvW as well drawing attention and surviving.
New culling patch isnt working. It lags us out and isnt rendering the enemies like it’s supposed to.
I say revert to old way and start over.This^^
on top of that its crashing more as well now,and stuck on the loading screen a lot.
3rded or 4thed, like previous solutions this doesn’t work.
Again I say revert to the way it was in beta where there weren’t such issues.
Everytime I sPVP and I am about to die, specially in 1v1, The enemy who wants to “Finish” me off, I intrupt him by using the Pull skill. Then when he tries to “Finish” me off again, I use skill3 to blow the enemy away from me to inturpt him again.
The timer on 3 is so long that I’m almost never in the position to do this.
You guys should just give up on the game just like Anet has given up on listening or responding to you.
They are pretty much closely monitoring this thread, waiting to hand out infractions -so they are well aware of your concern, still they are ignoring you.You will more likely get an answer if you directly mail to Crystin Cox.
ANet seems to have lost control and hence the needed touch to their (former?) product.
I dunno about that, IMHO the problem in this case is solely with anet, even in Guild Wars they apparently had DR mechanisms. The thing is that wasn’t a game with VP like GW2, they don’t recognise that this makes a difference.
To me they come across as ideologues, they have a vision for the game in this regard and they aren’t going to deviate no matter what the feedback is.
Why are bugs still happening with queues?
It should be a simple thing to fix. I was DCed and have now spent 2 hours waiting to get back into my Borderlands. Others in my guild who also DCed after me got back in after 15 minutes or so. I know there have been issues with this in the past but surely the queues are effectively ‘first come first served’ and this should be easily fixed?
…and give a chest to whomever did not got one with your script today. Lets move forward and forget the last event. Your client base has reason, do not waste more time and resources checking who got what…just do it, send a chest by mail and stop this bad blood.
Thanks and best regards,
Red
Agreed. This whole thing has now reached ridiculous proportions.
So… those that DID the event, got the chest and loot are also meeting the criteria to get ANOTHER chest full of loot
Really! If they do this why not just send a chest to every active player. This sucks.
Before I start, I want to point out that MF does NOT increase your chance at getting drops, it increases your chance at getting RARER drops from monsters(source:GW2 wiki). MF does not effect chests, bag contents, or quest rewards, only drops.
What about salvaging ectos?
This is a joke thread, right? Engineer downed skills are amazing. They probably have the best set of downed skills in the game. The 1 skill does massive damage and they have twice the disables to prevent stomps and/or neutralize incoming damage.
Try playing any other class other than the engineer so you can appreciate how good their downed skills are.
This is just so wrong, at the moment I’m mostly playing as an Ele and an engineer and the engy downed state completely sucks compared to the ele.
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