Surely its a bug that there are no crafting stations or a laurel vendor at Vigils Keep, when we have specifically been told that all services available in LA have been moved to Vigils Keep.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
As for the hassle of using the borderlands crafting stations versus Lion’s Arch, that’s debatable, of course, but entering WvW isn’t any more laborious than traveling to a waypoint — and costs nothing.
YMMV.
Like I said loading screens are a hassle, I sometimes get over a minute in a loading screen.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
There’s also the fact that major services previously available in LA are not available in Vigils Keep but are available in the airship if you want to pay for it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Oh, I don’t disagree with you about that. I was just pointing out (admittedly with some redundance given the other replies) that it’s very easy to return from WvW and isn’t a pain at all.
Spending a minute per loading screen is a pain. Coupled with the fact that getting out of WvW is actually 2 screens, firstly to the mists then back to where you were in tyria.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Again, the fact you can go somewhere else is a moot point. That is the rationalization that this is OK. The issue is that they took features in LA and put them behind a payment requirement.
Spot on, this is disgraceful. Why should I have to go elsewhere and have to spend significant time in loading screens when all services should be available in Vigils Keep.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
The idea that the, now united, races of Tyria would simply abandon the city rather than band together to push out the attacks, reclaim Lion’s Arch, and rebuild it through a united effort is not an outcome I’ll believe until I see more than someone vaguely hinting at secret knowledge to get attention.
This, and if it doesn’t happen then the writers don’t really understand Tyria.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
It is lost forever. Even ruins will be gone as there is going to be a big cataclysmatic event which will change the landscape of southern shore, or at least LA zone.
Even if LA is rebuilt sometime, it will be moved somewhere else.
Cause we need a hub and Vigils Keep aint it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
@morrolan,
The issue of overflows is not something you can fix in a month, or 6 even. The only solid fix is instances, which they adamantly refuse (I covered this issue in ‘The Ugly’ section).
IMHO until they resolve it they shouldn’t even design and introduce content like that then. Several people from one of my guilds have actually left the game over it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
The whole Ascended gear is just so poorly conceived from front to end. It makes no sense. Nothing in the game is better or more rewarding because of Ascended gear. It just pigenholes you character into a single build and play-style while asking you to grind ridiculous amounts of material only so a certain abundant material can have some economical value.
It’s like how “luck” was supposed to make greens and blues more appreciated and curb inflation. Yet all it does is create more and once people have 300 Magic Find, then what?
Just like with all the new currencies ANet introduced, none of them have a long-term plan. Everything is add-hoc and never thought through to the end.
ANet has brilliant artists and animators,
They have competent programmers,
They have a fairly management,
but in terms of game-design, they don’t seem to have a clue what they’re doing.
Good summary of anets strengths and weaknesses. I’d add project management as a clear weakness, and QA as well.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
That’s one way of putting it. Another is that it’s worth fighting for something for reasons beyond just winning.
That’s what I always saw WvW as being about.
If you’ve got a good server culture players should be willing to ‘play for the server’. That was completely destroyed by having free transfers for so long however.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
They have additionally seemed to be learning. Many small improvements have been made, such as more permanent content, adding active NPC dialogue in dungeons and such, splitting zergs into smaller groups for epic world events, and so forth. The process has been slow, but they do seem to be learning.
I would question, 2 examples:
None of the issues with Tequatl have been addressed in the 2 current zone wide encounters.
The release of ascended armor with even more absurd requirements than ascended weapons despite clear feedback from players.
Anet has been struggling, no matter what the press releases say. their writers are hitting word caps on releases, they reskin/reuse models with reckless abandon, they release whatever they can without forcing a rework of any other aspect (tippy toe-ing around the personal story and destiny’s edge timelines whenever possible, for example), and they resist making chest/leg armor whenever possible, yet still release fewer weapon/armor than players expect, mostly as temporary or cash shop (or both) items. The big content we got (fractals and Southsun) were likely either finished before release, or salvaged from projects discarded in the development process. They claim they have been hiring, but they won’t quote the number of devs/artists they have been hiring. They are hugely gearing up for a china release, and when the game came out they laid off HALF of their dev staff at least. Their employee count didn’t drop because they hired support staff in the dev’s place. the recent 50 employee increase is likely 90% support for china.
Interesting points, how do you know they laid off half their dev staff after release? I agree on fractals and southsun.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
hmmmm, no the amount of loss on critical damage is not going to be a lot bigger then on zerker.
Ferocity will give about 10% less criticaldamage then the current critical damage itself. So both on celestial and beserker, the amount of loss on critical damage will be 10%.
Crit dmg on celestial is currently greater than on zerker. After the change it will be a secondary stat on zerker and a stat on celestial of the same amount as the other stats on celestial which is less than the secondary stats on other stat combinations. Therefore the loss of crit dmg on celestial will be far greater. They have said they will look at raising the level of all stats on celestial to compensate but it remains to be seen by how much.
Its clear that this has been mishandled by the balance team with the loss on celestial not having been considered until it was brought up on the forum.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
We also need a possibility to exchange ascended weapon boxes. A week ago I got my first decent drop in 18 months of playing GW2: an ascended weapon box. Sadly the stats are useless to me (Magi), so the box went straight on my mule. Needless to say that it is highly frustrating especially because I just spent all of my gold and materials to raise another crafting profession to 500 and that little boost would have been very welcome.
Yep, my 2 ascended armor drops have both had stats that I don’t use.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
I don’t have ascended gear either, but I took a look at your list and I can honestly say that looks like very little grind to me. I literally have everything on that list already except all of that silk, which whatever that’s easy enough to get.
10,000 silk scraps for light armor is not a grind?? I was collecting silk for months prior to the intro and I still didn’t have even half of that amount.
Same answer I’ve used since those threads started.
At least as far as I remember since I started reading about the game, in most interviews and stuff they never promised (that I can remember at least) that there would be no grind, the promise was that there would be no required grind
It was actually said that there would be no grind for BiS. They haven’t kept to that.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Guild raids p*ss me off, sorry. I understand it’s " Guild Wars " but how crucial guilds are of followers really bothers me. I’m not in a guild for almost that exact reason… The majority of them, let me stress majority will shoo away anyone who isn’t in their guild or scrutinize them until they leave. Sure, there are benefits to being coordinated that much no one can deny. But you shouldn’t exclude people because they’re not a part of your guild, they’re still a part of your server.
Well I haven’t encountered that on JQ at all.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
It’s only a grind because ANet lets players convert in game coin into gems. The question that we will never know is how well would the game have done if that wasn’t an option.
Yep, to me this is the biggest problem with the cash shop the whole RMT side of it.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
No. They mean participation history during the tournament. So if you transfer on the last day of the tournament, you won’t get much rewards. If they do it the way you say, players new to WvW won’t be getting any rewards just because they’re new.
I don’t think its that clear, they definitely need to clarify how it will work.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
You’re assuming that there will be enough tokens for every participant to get a decent reward. I can EASILY foresee this system being something like one ascended trinket will be worth maybe 12 tokens, but participants on low tier servers might only get 4-5 tokens by the end of the whole tournament due to their placement.
The announcement doesn’t mention anything about winning servers getting more tokens. It only talks about rewards for getting the meta achievement.
“All players who complete the meta achievement will receive a set number of tournament tickets based on world placement which can be exchanged at a vendor once the tournament has completed for a variety of items.”
My apologies I got that wrong I didn’t pick that part up. It does indeed suck given that the tournament is decided purely on coverage. Some sort of handicapping system is definitely required for this.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
You’re assuming that there will be enough tokens for every participant to get a decent reward. I can EASILY foresee this system being something like one ascended trinket will be worth maybe 12 tokens, but participants on low tier servers might only get 4-5 tokens by the end of the whole tournament due to their placement.
The announcement doesn’t mention anything about winning servers getting more tokens. It only talks about rewards for getting the meta achievement.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Are official numbers enough for you or do you prefer unofficial studies from entities that pop up from thin air?
There’s no break up there to do a like for like analysis, plus there’s the issue of currency conversion. If the numbers are dramatically wrong why hasn’t there been any sort of response?
And besides the numbers quoted by the OP wouldn’t put GW2 into the top 10 anyway so there probably isn’t any conflict.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
NO , Just NO. Yes, I am from Blackgate a “stacked” server…………….. I understand that a lot of bangwagoners will join BG and JQ to “get” their part of the reward
Nothing in the page on it states that the reward for victory will be anything greater than what it was in S1. The page refers to rewards for completing the meta achievement.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
ESO will be the flop of the year (just read every single independant review or experience the stress test betas yourself, it’s pretty bad, not an Elder scrolls game and not a real MMO experience),
Reviews are actually up and down. Its certainly not a game that hits you between the eyes but I suspect it may be a slow burner. I don’t think it will be an immediate success
GW2 shines as far as combat gameplay goes, and EOTM is currently shining a spotlight on what GW2 does best. Fighting.
Is all servers of a particular colour running around in 1 big blob really fighting?
No, and that’s not what I do.
My guild tried to run around as a guild group of around 15 last night oceanic time and couldn’t avoid the huge red team blob and find smaller fights. This was partially due to the design of eotm but also the seeming inability to find smaller fights.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
The issue would be if they didn’t drop at all, but we know that they do drop and pretty frequently
I do not think that word means what you think it means. If the majority of the playerbase has had no percursor drop for them in thousands of hours of play then it is not frequent.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Is the future of WvW really bouncing between EOTM overflows, seeing if there’s anyone else there, making sure your whole group gets in the same one, etc…
EOTM can’t evolve as a real alternative until there’s the ability to get a whole guild group into the same instance easily, something like the sPVP browser.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
Don’t believe me? Look at the server populations, majority of the servers are high, very high, or full for NA. If that entire population were to contribute to WvW there would be no “coverage problem.”
Those include inactive accounts and so are misleading. If you actually guest to some of the servers its clear the PvE population is very small compared to the highest pop servers.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
You dont’ need to grind anything. Just play the game normally. Most people can make 10 gold easily by just playing the game.
In 2 month you can have your precursor by just playing the game.
The way I like to play is to hunt for the item. Thats how I play a game. Not but just doing some stuff to get gold (also knows as grinding) to then buy the item I want. Thats not fun. Or at least not for the people who have a similar game-play style as me and complain about the grind..
Precursors you can’t hunt for because they are intended to be able to be gained by any type of player (expect a PVP player). Play normally and you will get your precursor eventually.
Lol, people with 2000 hours still don’t have one, let alone “their precursor” (aka one they’d want).
If it isn’t one they want most are closely the same cost (expect underwater ones) they can just sell it and then buy the one they want. Problem Solved
You’re avoiding the main issue, which is having no precursor at all drop despite over 2000 hours played.
Jade Quarry [SoX]
Miranda Zero – Ele / Twitch Zero – Mes / Chargrin Soulboom – Engi
Aliera Zero – Guardian / Reaver Zero – Necro
