So there has been anet responses to other issues but not this. John Corpening acknowledges in that statement that server imbalance was a huge issue yet here they are letting servers in both T1 and T2 get out of balance.
The chest, containing Proofs, being account bound is a bug. Earning specializations (skills and traits) is intended to be character progression. Ex: If you want to fully train up your warrior, you actually need to play your warrior for some amount of time.
No offence but that is a theoretical design principle that simply does not translate to desired practice. And I hope you don’t fix the ‘bug’. What does it matter that we transfer chests between characters on a practical level?
- too much space for roaming
How so?
- no ruins with bloodlust
I couldn’t care less about the ruins themselves. But PPK would be nice
- too easy to hide inside a tower/keep for a mesmer/thief
No, it is literally impossible. Once you flip a keep, all enemies in the keep or displayed on the map as a red dot for 5 minutes.
And once the 5mins is up? The keeps are so big that it should be easy for a thief or mesmer to avoid capture for 5 mins.
We are looking at adding a way for players to earn Quickloot in WvW as well. We wanted to keep PvE progression (Masteries) separate from WvW progression (Ability Lines). However this means when a new Mastery ability is created, that might also be useful in another gamemode, it doesn’t automatically crossover.
Just create a WVW version, I would wager the majority of WvW players have unspent WvW mastery points.
Thank you for listening, i hope the servers remain open for awhile longer while players farm gold for transfers. Already there are movements being planned for offhours guilds in NA servers. I hope anet gives some time for the transfers to complete.
….weakest T1 server is still locked and how will it help off hours considering JQ is now the weakest SEA server in T1….
You are kidding , right? lol
Nope, CA and FUG were the main sea guilds left on JQ, CA has gone to YB don’t know where FUG is going. RA ran a big blob before now, it will get bigger. FOO and WvW don’t have many on now, more may return but there has been no evidence so far.
Courtyard needed to be removed because it is an entirely different game mode that people aren’t built for and for some reason we still don’t have saved build templates. Spirit watch needs to be removed for the same reason. Skyhammer is annoying but it’s still conquest so it can remain.
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Spirit Watch is conquest as for CY if you know your build to change to you have time to change it. And the fact is it was only unranked not ranked so games are essentially meaningless.
Its still account bound.
Thank you for listening, i hope the servers remain open for awhile longer while players farm gold for transfers. Already there are movements being planned for offhours guilds in NA servers. I hope anet gives some time for the transfers to complete.
Yes because that will make T1 competitive considering the now weakest T1 server is still locked and how will it help off hours considering JQ is now the weakest SEA server in T1 with RA getting reinforcements and you and FUG leaving JQ and it can’t get transfers in.
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So are the chests still account bound or have they been changed to soul bound?
According to the wiki in base Tyria:
“There are 214 points available if you have the Krait Obelisk Shard in your home instance”
This means you still have to do some of the jungle to unlock your specialization. Sorry but I see no problem with this AT ALL.
My Warrior and Guardian both had over 200 HP’s left prior to HoT ( World Completion ). It’s pathetic that to max out an ELITE specialization I have to do what? 5 Hero Challenges? lol
ArenaNet, you need to stop caving in.
No they don’t they need to remember that the vast majority of players are casual. 1%ers are called that for a reason.
Its not pathetic that you only have to do 5 hero challenges in HOT on toons that you’ve got world completion because you’ve done a lot of work to get that far and this is where you get rewarded for it. What about revenants though and other alts without world completion?
There were people able to get Herald at the time when it cost 400. How you ask? They didn’t whine on forums, they just went and got it.
And there were people playing revenants who made complaints, so what.
I don’t know how you ‘play’ the game, but i like having certain objectives set for me to ‘work’ towards (thank you english language). That’s what i call ‘playing’ the game.
Problem with that in regard to abilities as has been stated many times and by Colin that you reach the the objective at the end and can’t play the content with the cool new spec.
That’s why all the content is repeatable. You do the exciting exploration stuff while it’s new, get your elite spec as a reward, and then can play about on the maps’ repeatable content with your fancy new spec.
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But if you’re driven by objectives hasn’t it been achieved?
You were not expected to be playing through HoT the first time with the Elite Spec, it was expected that you would use your Elite Spec on a second play through.
Second play through? You mean got through the maps doing the events? 1st, 2nd or 3rd play through don’t have much meaning when the game is relatively open world like HOT is.
And who said that anyway?
K and by the same token I’ll expect all the undeserving 10s to be updated as well.
What if they really think it’s worth 10?
What if they think its really worth 0?
The overall rating now is 7.3 which IMO is fair.
I don’t know how you ‘play’ the game, but i like having certain objectives set for me to ‘work’ towards (thank you english language). That’s what i call ‘playing’ the game.
Problem with that in regard to abilities as has been stated many times and by Colin that you reach the the objective at the end and can’t play the content with the cool new spec.
You had 214 left over from before HOT, eventually there will be another elite spec.
K and by the same token I’ll expect all the undeserving 10s to be updated as well.
Just pls, get over it. Eventually people would have been at the same point as you were maybe a week ago. You were never anything special and you’ll be nothing special, at least in that regard.
(And yes, I could’ve finished daredevil in like a day, but do I feel good about it? No. Why? It’s nothing special.)
People have done the content, left or just stopped playing regulary because it was indeed a little too much and even anet themself, as they mentioned in the blog, didn’t like it either.
This may all sound a bit harsh, don’t misunderstand me, but the crying about the ones who cried, is getting actually more annoying than the ‘old’ ones, it was anets decision, now please, leave this subject alone.
I just think it’s funny you say it was Anet’s decision and to leave it alone. It was their decision to make it 400 in the first place, but people cried too much. People have every right to be upset, they wasted time for nothing and all they got is 150 Hp’s with no use for them.
People had 214 wasted hero points before HOT by that logic.
a) Increase the reward: I think this would be the most interesting one. High cost high reward gameplay is usually the most enjoyable in PvP games.
If this direction is followed, only fire, water and earth need to be buffed. Air is already OKish.
They reduced fire overload damage so they don’t regard its damage as too low, laughable as this may seem.
Sea of Sorrows and Fort Aspenwood have moved to full and Blackgate and Yaks Bend have moved to very high. Is this possibly a bug given that it seems very unlikely that SoS and FA have gained enough transfers to become full?
This is most likely due to WvW population being based on edge of the mist populations. Which have actually been incredibly high lately due to pve players farming hero points. That being said, it is sad that eotm even counts still as its about as much of a wvw map as silverwastes is.
EOTM is not meant to count, anet stated this plainly. The question then becomes were they lying or is it a bug?
For those that think BG is abusing the population it’s not intentional.
You’re wrong, what BG is doing is widely known. The fact is they have been conducting a blackout for a month now and it clearly works. And it shows other servers what to do to game the system.
Well its happened exactly as predicted with BG and YB going to very high due to gaming the system. This is exactly why the server caps are a bad idea.
Wow arenanet you’ve really dropped the ball on this one, allowing a server to clearly game the system. Well done, BG will now dominate T1 NA. You should have reviewed your system when it became obvious thats what they were doing, its even been talked about here so ignorance is no excuse.
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I’m a casual and I HATE the change. Please don’t lump me in with you people.
Yeah a casual who already has the 400 hero points to unlock your elite…….
According to the wiki in base Tyria:
“There are 214 points available if you have the Krait Obelisk Shard in your home instance”
This means you still have to do some of the jungle to unlock your specialization. Sorry but I see no problem with this AT ALL.
My Warrior and Guardian both had over 200 HP’s left prior to HoT ( World Completion ). It’s pathetic that to max out an ELITE specialization I have to do what? 5 Hero Challenges? lol
ArenaNet, you need to stop caving in.
No they don’t they need to remember that the vast majority of players are casual. 1%ers are called that for a reason.
Its not pathetic that you only have to do 5 hero challenges in HOT on toons that you’ve got world completion because you’ve done a lot of work to get that far and this is where you get rewarded for it. What about revenants though and other alts without world completion?
You still have the same number of HP you earned before. You also still have the option to not play the elite spekittenil you have earned 400 points.
What on earth makes you think a “refund” makes me feel better about putting in effort that gives absolutely nothing?
And “pretending it still costs 400 hero points” is incredibly short sighted. Since other people are still getting the same stuff I get. Except they don’t get to lift a finger for it.
People up above are talking about strawman arguments I suggest you take a look.
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… at least according to the White Knights anyway… that we were only 1% of the player population who were busy whining on the forums while everyone else was (ahem) busy playing the game ?
So what changed. I guess ANET knew all along that casuals made up the majority and were less willing to put up with the grind while hardcores would stick with the game no matter what.
Anyway… THANK YOU THANK YOU for the Hero Point change ANET !
Yep spot on, Wildstar is a cautionary tale for any developer about what happens when you focus only on hardcore players.
I must say.. it felt nice to have something that felt some what difficult and time consuming to work for.. and tbh.. it only took me about 15 hours of game play to reach that goal. (full reaper spec)
So what about masteries then?
Please please please ANET. Stand your ground. Weren’t Masteries and Unlocking Elite Spec supposed to take longer than getting to level 80 in the base game? Why are you folding to the elite spec complaints and not doing anything about the mastery farming?
Masteries were, nothing was ever said about elite specs which Colin actually addresses in his post.
D/D Elementalist works with higher latency because its heavily rotation based and has very good sustain.
I have latency troubles and D/D ele is almost unplayable for me.
The blast on Burning Speed goes off behind you instead of where you land so you can never land it and Ride the Lightning has awful rubber banding issues with high latency. These two skills are crucial to your ability to use this set, so you’re far less effective.
That sounds like a problem of spikes as well as high latency. I’m in Aust. and play with a ping of 300 or so, when the latency is consistently at 300 then D/D ele is fine. But yeah staff ele would also be a good choice as would any ranged class.
But but the entire reason i grinded the pact commander was for autoloot in wvw.
This is why it sucks and thankfully I didn;t caught by that. Have shifted my mastery to legendaries.
I agree, using tickets you’ve saved up from gameplay is not an exploit and does not need to be addressed.
I wonder if the exploit has to do with saving rank up chests and opening them on a different toon?
This is what I’ve heard, and I hope its not the case, its far to restrictive to make the chests soulbound. And really what would be the point? Who does it hurt?
And to anet when will this be turned back on? I have legitimate scrolls to turn in.
FYI for people that are interested:
AFAIK the exploit was people using WvW tournament tickets to buy Wexp consumables (thimbles, kegs, that sort of thing) and speed leveling the hero points.
Thats not an exploit its a legitimate use of tickets and consumables.
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I don’t understand why most of you guys feel like you deserve to get your elite spec right away?
Strawman, no-one is saying we should get it immediately without effort.
The Heroic Notary and Notarized Scrolls have been disabled temporarily to deal with an exploit. We’ll enable them again as soon as we fix the issue.
How about give more of them per WvW level up? And what’s with them costing badges on top of the coins, the PVE ones don’t cost gold on top of the HP.
Thats actually a good point. They should cost ONLY badges not gold. WvW is the worst part of the game for earning gold after all.
D/D Elementalist works with higher latency because its heavily rotation based and has very good sustain.
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With all of the redundant posts on this forum regarding elite specializations being gated behind a heap of prerequisite hero points, I thought it would be fun to play devil’s advocate. Ultimately, I think the issue isn’t the number of points required to unlock them, but the nature of how difficult the HoT hero challenges are.
Here’s why I believe the hero point requirement should not be changed:
1) You don’t need your elite spec to play through HoT.
2) It’s an elite spec – it shouldn’t be cheap by its nature.
3) It incentivizes map completion and/or WvW participation.
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Just to add to whats been said on these. ANET themselves state that elite specs shouldn’t overshadow the base specs. This runs contrary to the cost.
As for 3 other mechanisms can do that and let us play with the cool new abilities.
I would rather see a guild PvP roster. The way it’s set now, by my understanding, makes swaps and changes difficult.
This, a thousand times this.
No it’s a perfect example of not giving a crap about the gamemode.
This, as I said its also very unprofessional.
There are currently 24 servers right now. Most of them are medium,
Er Medium is the lowest they can be hence at least some of the medium servers have extremely low populations.
Afaik Masteries are disabled in WvW, ofc it’s not working.
OK thanks for this so there’s no point getting pact mastery then.
You receive “Proof of heroics” in WVW that can be turned in for hero points. From my experience, WvW may be the fastest way to accumulate hero points.
Fastest way is to join a group in maguuma doing hero challenges, whether its your guild or another group.
Didn’t they say recently there is 7 MILLION Accounts?!
Even if half of those are inactive/don’t have HoT that still leaves more than 3 Million players fine with the content
Read the messages above yours. I doubt the game has 1m active players.
I agree OP I barely do anything in Tyria any more so I have a lot of mastery points sitting there doing nothing cause I won’t be getting xp. The system is stupid, having 2 level up mechanics being used concurrently in the 1 system is just poor design.
A sentiment that I have heard from a lot of dedicated WvW players (and one that I share) is that the maps would be awesome if they were always full of players.
I really think that the maps are fantastically well designed. They are interesting, and nuanced, and complex. I do think however, that this complexity really tends to exacerbate the feeling of emptiness that comes with a lack of population.
Yes this is a good point and the fact is such a situation really only occurs on T1 reset for a few hours. Its a situation that is also exacerbated by server caps being too low. I think they may have banked on a lot of players returning to the game which doesn’t appear to have happened. They are going to be forced to merge servers I think.
If you don’t like it, don’t play. It’s a kittening game after all. Maybe they’ll change it, but honestly I doubt it, and I think they’re totally justified if they don’t. It’s not the first time people have whined incessantly about something and ultimately got over it or quit. Game just hit 7 million players…
Er 7m accounts over the total life of the game. If you don’t realize the game has far less active players than it did at launch then you aren’t looking hard enough.
They had to put up giant walls to disguise just how paper thin this expansion really is. If it wasn’t for the brain numbing mastery grind people would be done with Maguuma in a day or two.
I think this is probably it to make sure the xpac appeared to be of a decent length they had to work out ways of extending how long it took.
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So you actually defeat Mordremoth? Fantastic, that to me is great news.
Do we really need another thread whinging about the whingers? Why not comment in one of the many existing threads if you want to?
These are going to cause material prices to massively drop on the market.
And……….. not seeing a problem given how the TP kittens over so much of the game.
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