Guild Wars 2

Alastar.2863:

yes, it does provide a boost in stats higher then exotics, yes they are extremely rare rewards in the Fractals of the mist, but they do not throw balance and fairness out the window.

10% is not a small difference.

rjnemer.7816:

Originally it was introduced for agony resistance in fractals but Anet hasnt done anything with fractals since there launch

Well it was also a timesink between exotic and legendary but given they use some of the same mats that statement has been rendered false.

rjnemer.7816:

You are somewhat wrong. To make 1 deldrimor ingot you will need 10 ectos, 20 iron and 1 mithrilium (which is your time gated mat).

To make a deldrimor plated dowel it will require 50 ectos. Which is required for every ascended inscription.

Seriously! What was that about no grind again.

When results are based purely on coverage of course they aren’t fair. It seems ridiculous that it appears we will get personal rewards based on where our server finishes in these new leagues.

Can I ask again where is the announcement about these leagues and further information?

Where is the announcement about these leagues?

Sky.7610:

ColinJohanson.2394:

We have folks constantly working to improve performance, we’ve actually made quite a few perf updates this year. You’ll see more perf updates in the upcoming releases, we have a team working entirely on performance at all times that won’t be going away any time soon.

This might sound harsh but considering how terribly unoptimized this game is, it is time to consider letting go of this “performance team”, and start hiring some ppl that knows how to optimize it.

This! Performance is going backward so unless the performance team hasn’t actually implemented anything yet…………….

Lambent.6375:

Nah, not a joke post, the only thing I’m worried about is how often chest will give these t7 mats, and how many, and how often an exotic will produce dark matter.

10 Dark matter
500 Pile of Bloodstone Dust
500 Empyreal Shard
500 Dragonite Ore

Maybe I’m missing some things, but the rest of the stuff seems to just require you to make daily trips to low to high level zones, and gather all the metal and wood you see, or just gather them as you’re passing, and doing something else, or if you have the gold, buy them on the tp.

So we don’t know how much dust/shards/ore will drop from champs. 500 sounds like a lot though, if we get between say 0 and 5 per champ it will be completely unacceptable.

Shifu.4321:

silvermember.8941:

Shifu.4321:

They should just make most of the mats tradeable. I play only around 2 hours most days now, and the likelihood that I will miss something like a dragon boss or a temple is quite high.

MOst of the mats are tradeable.

Only the ingots from what I see in Dulfy. The REAL important ones (dragonite ore, bloodstone dust, etc.) are account bound, and can only be obtained in very specific places. Plus you need 100 each of them.

100! One would hope that we get a substantial amount per drop. But I’m not holding my breath. So maybe its 2 weeks at a minimum but the average time to craft 1 weapon will end up being significantly longer.

SafiMoyo.5130:

Let’s say you use two sets of 1 handed weapons. That’s 4 weapons, which is 8 weeks of work for one build on one character.

I mean, it is a serious time investment. If you want alternate builds, you’ll have to just forget about it. I have, and I play one character, so it’s all very managable to me. But I swap weapons a lot on this one character, so getting my LB, SB, sword, axe, GS, and warhorn back is going to take a lot of time (and I’m just going to forget about the torch and dagger).

I don’t have the time for multi characters, nor the bank space and time for multi builds.

Spot on I’d really like to see an anet rep justify this.

Too late……………………

Algreg.3629:

again, how is that any news? ascended gear was announced as far back as last year and we all knew what would come of it. I acutaly quit over it back then temporarily. No, exotics are not pointless, they are now transitional gear, just like masterworks and rare are for exotics. That is the nature of gear progression. Some people love it, some people hate it, but I am quite puzzled about people being surprised now. Anyone who played this game long enough to acquire said gear should have known.

Whats news is the time gating (although it was quite easily inferred that there would be time gating) especially given that people not only have multiple alts but multiple weapon sets on each toon.

Brutaly.6257:

Lokki.1092:

because it’s not about buffing Celestial its about keeping it at the value level it was at before the change. And lets be honest, without MF Celestial is going to lose value no matter what.

Why not. They have lower effective stats compared to other geartypes even though the raw stats are higher.

Two reasons, there are more reasons as well, are that they are low in power (main damage stat) and that they gain less in absolute numbers from multiplicative damage traits.

The answer is simple then buff power to compensate.

Rigel.3092:

Avenge.1478:

On a scale of 1 to ‘Quit Trying’, where does BG rank this week…

You were where last week saying such about SoR? Thought so….

Yes and many BG forum warriors disparaged SOR as making excuses. So why is it OK for BG to do it but its just an excuse when SOR do it?

ColinJohanson.2394:

We have folks working constantly on finding ways to improve over-all game performance, in particular when a large number of players gather together. You’ll continue to see updates and upgrades in this area as the year continues to get performance as smooth as possible.

Sorry when skill lag in WVW gets worse and things like loading times get worse and worse I can’t see any improvements in terms of optimisations.

Hyung.6140:

AJP.8610:

Also, since Liquid WXP has been out, I think I’ve had one drop.

Pretty useless IMO.

These occasional drops of liquid WXP mean alts are now so viable! ;p

Yeah its ridiculous, the fact that the chance of these dropping is obviously so small plus the fact that the increase in the rate of getting WXP appears to be only about 1.5 times what it was in no way makes up for WXP not being account bound. It was a distortion of the truth to even imply that it might be a workaround, and more masteries are coming.

Victory.2879:

Anyone else feel this has been tweaked recently (downwards) for those not in a squad?

I seem to be getting the same amount of rubbish loot as always but a huge drop in badges.

Soloing a camp used to give 2 badges, now it’s one or none.

Agreed I’ve definitely noticed that the no. has decreased. A stealth nerf?

Elidath.5679:

Victory.2879:

If the drop rate in wvw for new materials is as low as these are then forget it, you’ll never make a new set.

Except it apparently won’t have any “drop rate”.
From the official blog post quoted above:

You’ll receive these materials as guaranteed rewards once per day per unique location (…)

For example, capturing camps, towers, and keeps in WvW will earn you these crafting materials.

So there you are, guaranteed non random access.

Which will most probably be per account thereby again punishing those of us with alts and who like changing builds periodically.

We still need raid style grouping for large groups.

ASB.4295:

Fun Fact: The only reason there’s no direct gear progression in GW1 is because Anet at first didn’t regard their PvE content as anything else but a lengthy tutorial for what they considered was going to become endgame for every single player: PvP

Yet GW1 survived for 7 years and is still going.

TooBz.3065:

Yeah, I don’t think Anet has really thought through how many different weapons and armor people have. I did an unscientific query and it looks like most people have at least 8ish weapons and 4+ armor sets. And that’s just for people who don’t have alts.

Grab your popcorn, this is going to be fun.

Yes I am in this position.

Xista.7391:

You’re still able to play the way that you want too. Everything is still doable with exotic gear. Only things that ascended gear help you with in PvE is high level fractals and the odd solo achievement (IE Liadri 8 orb).

WvW

And yes it clearly discourages experimentation. I’ve gone through 4-5 different specs on my elementalist over the course of the game, with all ascended gear (once armor is put in) the stat difference will be too great to gloss over in WvW.

Master of Timespace.2548:

If you add boon duration, you must reduce the crit damage attribute on that gear. Otherwise it is simply too strong compared to everything else.

Have you run the numbers proving that?

Rigel.3092:

Do not be deluded into thinking that to have an effective necro power build for WvW that you have to have points in the power trait (spite). You definitely can have an effective necro power build without doing so. You simply need to determine your role in WvW – are you going to roam or small group or run with a zerg? My necro build is built/designed to be run with a zerg.

0/0/30/30/0

You’re missing 10 somewhere. In soul reaping maybe?

azurrei.5691:

People forget that this (along with the Dungeon reward changes) are the FIRST set of changes to the ENTIRE rewards system. It only seems imbalanced because nothing else has been changed yet – give it some time!

Well based on that we’re going to be able to earn 50 gold an hour compared to what we’ve been able to with this update.

Somehow I don’t think so.

Fantastic idea OP

Amins.3710:

World vs World is Dead.

No loot.

No Achievement Points.

No gear skins worth getting.

No chance of a Legendary.

No making of anything resembling anything close to what could be considered “decent coin”.

No new content.

Lots of unfulfilled promises.

… but hey… they fixed the culling…

+1 for you

Shoe.5821:

RNGs are easy to test, especially in something like gw2.

If you look at drop rate research or anything that deals in large numbers you can see how drop rates correspond rather closely to obviously set percentages (like 0.1%).

Yabbut they aren’t.

Shoe.5821:

I’d rather get the lesser amount with a 100% chance of dropping than relying on anets borked RNG system.

there’s nothing wrong with the rng :roll:

And what is your certainty based on?

Namica.2951:

Simple -can- be fine. The issue is she is apparently simple, while also having her hand in all these different pots. She is behind to much, doing to much, and her personality doesn’t match any of it.

Exactly right she just doesn’t fit.

Julie Yann.5379:

It’s Anets fault designing the event backwards, why didn’t they make the Aeterblades spawn fewer Champs and increase the number of Champs that spawn from the minion events.

Cause they are clearly using the same code for the aetherblade appearances that they used for the balloon events.

Amadan.9451:

so according to this logic i f i kill mob a and my party mate kill mob b we can loot both? i don’t think so…

No it doesnt work like that you still have to get a hit on a mob to qualify for the drop. Its just you appear to get total party damage on that mob added to your own damage.

Shoe.5821:

the difference between – say – a vial of 2500 that has a 10% drop rate and a vial of 250 with a 100% drop rate is meaningless with the # of levels we’re earning

I’d rather get the lesser amount with a 100% chance of dropping than relying on anets borked RNG system.

DevonCarver.5370:

They haven’t been rolled back, they are not a high percentage chance but they are dropping. Ask around and you’ll find some people with them.

More RNG, fantastic. Then its hardly going to be the panacea for not having WXP abilities account bound that it seemed to be originally.

No optimisation appears to have occurred for a long time. Loading screens have just kept getting longer. Its ridiculous.

Amadan.9451:

i can swear is less than 10k and i can get loot even if i get bronze medal… and when i’m in the open world i rarely party especially with strangers…
i don’t think the damage done by the party qualifies better than single player damage to tag a mob.

In my direct experience it does.

Algreg.3629:

Well, loot tagging isn´t that hard these days, annoying none the less, but still: if you are running a build that cannot qualify for loot – assuming you arrived on time for the champ – you really need to reexamine your character (and not just because of loot tagging)

Then you complain about zergs, but apparently want to be part of the farming succesfully – well, I´d call that hipocrisy.

I was actually talking more about the principle of how players register for loot being at odds with their supposed design principles.

Erasculio.2914:

projectcedric.6951:

What makes you think this lamentation will end there?

The lamentation will never end. But unless ArenaNet did what they should really do – create an area specifically for farming, in which it was obvious drops would be better, so farmers would move there and leave the other players in peace in the open world – all we can do is make the game less bad.

Orr could have been that area and arguably was at around Feb this year and prior.

I agree with the OP, given their supposed design goals it is baffling why they have made it so that the damage the whole group does applies to every player in the group seperately.

Doing some champ farming recently I only needed to get 1 hit on a champ to register for loot so long as I’m in a group whereas when I wasn’t in a group I had to lay several hits on the champs to register for the loot.

Supposedly they didn’t create raid grouping functionality because they didn’t want that kind of formal grouping to be needed in the open world.

Pandabro.8743:

What?! I’ve never had a problem getting loot from a champ while not being in a party unless I come in at the very tail end and cannot get any damage on them. The amount of damage you have to do to get credit for them is pretty minimal (I’d say around 10k).

Depending on the class 10k isn’t minimal when you’re in a zerg and the champ goes down in seconds.

IMHO Scarlet is a pathetic villain, she’s like a villain out of a childrens series not a supposed game for adults. Huge leaps of logic are required to accept her as the mastermind she’s supposed to be.

I dc’ed in 1 got back in because I was in a party but didn’t get credit obviously because it didn’t register me as starting and finishing the event. Good job anet now can you please give me my credit given how long these invasions last (which is another problem).

JoePhuket.8045:

Also do you know JQ didnt hate SoR until when? IT was until SoR recruited ACO AND WARD. GUILDs THAT CALL JQ’S COMMUNITY TOXIC. so this is the result, you will get focused by JQ’s NA, as well as BG’s NA because we hate you. and ofc we will focus your SEA to minimize the EU timezone where IRON can pvd everything back.

What about BG recruiting TKG?

Jet.4795:

I hate to break it to you but I might know our SEA better than you lol. Our SEA has only focused you 100% for 2 weeks. Now not saying they have not hit you or maybe a little harder than normal for that ppt, but like I said they have only focused you for 2 weeks.

Well I guess if by SEA you mean all guilds and not just ATM then you may be right. Still funny though given you’re shooting yourself in the fioot with regard to winning the week.

FearedbytheGods.8617:

The WvW political climate has switched, JQ SEA focuses SoR now because of IRON trolls and other antics from SoR.

JQ and SoR did support one another at this time, but it is gone.

IRON has become a liability to SoR.

Whats funny is that by doing it Waha completely denies JQ the chance of winning the match up.

Jet.4795:

Our SEA has focused SoR for a total of 2 weeks,

This is actually completely false.

Celtic Lady.3729:

Random is random. RNG means something will happen the first time for some and never for others.

It should even out over thousands of iterations, based on the feedback this is not necessarily happening.

Mattargul.9235:

RGN is RNG? The anecdote about you not getting anything and the other guy getting 2 is pretty much what RNG is all about.

And hating that pre’s are dropping via RNG.., well, how else would you like it?

For there to be another way to obtain the items if one simply has bad luck, you know like most other mmorpgs. They are implementing it for precursors supposedly but really too little too late, should have been in the game from the beginning, at this stage in mmo design it should be a fundamental part of any design.

Aza.2105:

The skins look slick, especially the shield. Shout out to the Anet artists for delivering some quality skins.

Yeah pity ye again they’re hidden again behind RNG and gambling boxes.

kingcragus.6810:

I view wxp as end game character progression. (note character, not account) levels are not account bound. skill points are not account bound. traits are not account bound. wxp should not be account bound.

As already stated in this thread, WvW is large scale PvP. PvP is skill based and about you as a player, not what your character achieves. PvE is about your character. As such there is essentially no character progression. Different characters exist to provide variety in terms of playstyle.

defrule.7236:

The game is very arcade-like and really lacks depth for players to derive any fun from.

I used to play Minecraft a lot and it made me dream of a WvW game where we could build things and actually fight over meaning resources like gold, wood, stone and food rather than an arbitrary resource called supply.

I dream of servers working together to secure resources, create transport routes to get materials to locations to build massive and sophisticated castles.

Camelot Unchained will be that game I think.

Kasei.8726:

I agree OP, and Anet already knows how to make what you want. They created back in GW1. It was called Fort Aspenwood. 16 players per game, attacking and defending, both PvE and PvP characters could participate, siege weapons, etc. I spent the vast majority of my time playing on that map, and it never got old.

I weep for how arenanet has changed.