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It’s the Iron Ingot (x40) which is likely throwing people off. This is what I was using today.
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mystic_Forge/Material_Promotion#Metal_Ingots
It’s exactly that. I built a giant spreadsheet that calculates the profit/loss on every single conversion using up to the minute pricing, but it was completely wrong because I relied upon the wiki’s recipe list which shows (x40) as the result of every single promotion. Granted, the notes indicate that there is an average return, and other pages indicate it is a range, but when you go to the Material Promotion page, every single recipe explicitly states the minimum number of items, rather than the average or the range.
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i hope they do never soemthing like this foxfire thing again
now ALL t5 mats worthless – t5 wood 10c, mithril ore 25c and leather 8c
they should do something to help this prices and not trash them
I’m a big fan of the current T5 prices. It has made certain crafting schemes much more profitable.
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It always goes on sale 2-3 days after I buy one… and they never give me a refund either.
I’ll let you know the next time I’m in the market for a slot so you can wait a few days and get it on sale.
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Dismantle is stupid. What if someone finds a clever spot to put siege and other people think it’s no good?
I vote this idea down.
Then that someone should either stay in his siege and prove it is clever or tell people why it is clever in order to dissuade them from dismantling.
You’d be surprised how many “problems” exist when you refuse to communicate with people.
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Why did this derail into a mount thread?
Don’t they all?
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40g is pretty easy to farm once you are max level, so I’d use the dye now since it unlocks for all of your characters and is one of the best dyes in the game.
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If you want to play a game that has mounts, then GW2 is not the game for you because it does not have mounts.
You are free to suggest that they add mounts, but until they do you are better off enjoying one of the hundreds of other games that do have mounts, and people are not out of line to suggest this to you.
See how that works?
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I don’t think there are any PvP/WvW players near the SP or Vistas (why would they be there when nothing there helps build world score?), so you won’t typically run into these situations.
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Sorry.. we’re looking into why the web-site decided to show a piece of last weeks post.. No free items this week.
Well, we wouldn’t say no if you did want to give out free items this week too.
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On a more proper note, Yes, people ought to stop using stupid phrases like these. Some ideas are truly dumb and others don’t make much sense but the majority come out of a good place.
Someone asks for Mounts and more of a WoW like system for Gw2, that means they like Gw2 enough to want to bring some of the things they enjoyed the most from other games to it so they can enjoy it even more as a whole. It’s more of a compliment than it is something that requires a visceral reaction or anger and yelling that they want to destroy Gw2 and it’s not the game for them to play.
Someone disappointed in the direction of the games development also has a right to voice their concerns. If someone is upset enough to go out of the game and find the forums and take the time to write up a post or make a thread, it means that, even if the thread is a terrible and hateful rant, they cared enough about the game to come voice it.
Just because someone doesn’t agree with direction doesn’t mean they are a kitten to your “society” of happy to swallow players. A lot of good ideas and great things come from people who went against the grain, how do you think you ended up with a Computer, Graphics cards, Games, that classy LEd screen or even the electricity to make it all work?
Beyond simple trollish behavior or outlandish rage, every thread and topic should be approached in a critical manner if you want any type of Civil or Meaningful discussion to take place and move the ideas forward. before throwing generalizations and making assumptions after reading only half a post maybe sit on your reply for 20 minutes before you post it and think the whole thing through.
If none of the above sounds like something you can manage then perhaps this thing called Social Interaction is not for you.
(Still sounds stupid doesn’t it?)
So you are basically saying that all suggestions are fine to make, except for suggestions that a person might find more entertainment value in a different game that already has what they are looking for?
How very, very hypocritical of you.
If a player asks for game 1 to be changed so that it is like game 2, it is perfectly reasonable for someone to recommend that they simply play game 2 as game 2 already meets their stated requirements.
No game will satisfy all players’ tastes. When your taste is very far from the reality in a game, you are only hurting your own enjoyment by sticking around and “suffering” through the parts you don’t like, especially if there already is a game that you enjoy.
The suggestion that a game may not be for you is not an insult to you. It is a legitimate suggestion that you should consider as the game may very well not be suited to your tastes.
That isn’t to say that you should not voice your suggestions and concerns, but you need to be willing to hear the suggestions and concerns that are made in response to yours if you expect anyone to take yours seriously.
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When your criticisms are related to bugs, oversights, or poor implementation, you should definitely voice them.
When your criticisms are related to the direction the game is going, “maybe this game isn’t for you” is a valid response. The developers (well, probably the publisher at this point) set the game’s direction and they aren’t going to do something that is deemed unprofitable or too risky. If you are unable to deal with the game’s direction, then there are literally thousands of other options out there that have other directions which you may find more to your liking.
I know it is always unpleasant to face a decision to abandon a game that you previously enjoyed, but every player will eventually face that decision because games are made for the purpose of generating revenue.
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Just be aware that ArenaNet will never tell you that they are shutting down your account. If you got banned, you would only know when you attempted to log in.
Any email that tells you that you are going to be “shut down” is always fake.
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Why should someone gain a mechanical advantage because they chose to level up Weaponsmithing and Armorsmithing on two characters instead of the same one?
Why shouldn’t they?
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Dismantling siege seemed to have a lot of support but there didn’t seem to be good agreement on who can dismantle whose siege and a lot of defensive players brought up concerns about the defenses they build on objectives and fears that it might get dismantled by others who didn’t see the defensive potential of it.
Perhaps dismantling siege that was placed around defensive structures can be limited to those who are representing the guild that has claimed the structure?
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I do wish that they would change crafting time gates to be character based instead of account based.
If I’m going through the effort and expense of leveling a craft more than once, I should receive an equivalent number of daily crafting slots.
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So this achievement is “old”? You can´t get it anymore? I hope this is not true…
I just spend over 400g to minis what i need for that title and i came here to check what is the problem because it shows only 40/55 Minipets and i own right now all of them.
There are two identical achievements (they both award the same title).
One is “old” and cannot be progressed any further than it already is (because you have to put minis in the Materials (formerly Collectibles) section of the bank to progress it and it is now impossible to put minis in the Materials section of the bank).
The other is “new” and can be progressed with your 400g worth of minis by right clicking on them and adding them to your wardrobe.
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The old achievements should just be moved over to the historical achievements like they did with the Hint achievement.
I thought they were moved over? I could have swore I saw my partially completed ones in the Historical… maybe just my imagination though…
As of the last time I checked (yesterday), they were side by side in the Community section.
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I would prefer them to merge the old and new achievement into a single achievement that progresses using the new method.
This is really a symptom of the old achievement system not tracking WHICH minis you had, but instead your current “in the bank” count.
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I just don’t understand why the Pact Commander didn’t confiscate Taimi’s device on the grounds that it was directly related to combatting a dragon and on the grounds that there was nothing Phlunt could do about it.
Then WE could have added the stipulation “now that you know it works, show up to the conference and I may let you look at how it works”.
When dealing with Asura, you must be aggressive in your negotiations. They do not respect passivity.
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Don’t worry, the bad rangers on the other servers will offset the penalties associated with misuse of Point Blank Shot.
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I’d like to suggest that additional daily rewards be provided for “Vanquishing” a dungeon.
Similar to GW1 map vanquishing, if you complete a dungeon path and kill every single enemy in the path you should receive a gold and token bonus. If you manage to Vanquish every path in a dungeon during a daily reset period, you should also get a “Dungeon Vanquished” bonus chest on top of your individual path vanquishing rewards.
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My sister got 2 of them to drop in CM last night.
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And that’s one of the reasons why the game is known for poor reward structure. It’s not a good thing. Accepting it is basically admitting failure on that front.
The reward structure is fine. The problem is that people have been conditioned to demand instant gratification and treat anything less as an affront to their holy personage that requires excessive electronic whining.
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Can someone else comment, is our first automatic skill at 13 a condition cleanse?
It appears that way, yes.
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I’m always happy when they add long term goals to the game, as I have more than enough patience to get things cheap.
I was NOT a fan of the non-recurring living story achieves (or the current non-recurring holiday achieves) as they forced me to play the game at a pace that was not mine in order to get something.
The new living story achievement method suits me just fine (as do these collections).
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If you are willing to wait, place a buy order and it will most likely fill.
It will never be filled because people 1 copper up you and place 10 orders in 1 minutes. That’s what the OP is complaining. How someone is manage to do that, I have no idea.
The only way I see to combat it is place a much higher bid. If you eat away the person’s profit margin, they can’t 1 copper up you. Just like someone posted already (place order at sell price minus 20%).
If the price spread is wide enough for flipping, then the item isn’t at equilibrium yet and your offer may not ever be filled.
If the price spread is narrow, then your offer WILL be filled when the price fluctuates to include your offer.
When buying gear to use, I always check the spread and fire off a buy order and it always fills.
The demand for regular gear is pretty flat, so your buy offer will eventually be #1 again, given about a week or so.
If you are going for stuff with valuable runes/sigils, can be used for hot precursor forging, or is collectible, then you are going to be competing with everyone else playing the game and will probably never get an order filled unless you spend every waking minute camping it.
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Whether bots are involved or not, you’ve still got thousands of actual people, many of whom are trying to do the exact same thing you are doing.
If you are looking for weapons quickly, just buy a listing.
If you are willing to wait, place a buy order and it will most likely fill.
Unless you are trying to flip things, there is no benefit to constantly cancelling and rebidding.
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sprocket pickaxe = P2W
I already told you guys… I am the sprocket king. I have won the game by accumulating the most sprockets. You can stop playing and talking about the sprocket now.
Seriously though, the Sprocket Pickaxe is no more P2W than any other gemstore item, it is just more direct with the level of convenience it bestows. If you think that convenience = P2W, then the game shipped that way and the Sprocket Pickaxe is therefore no more P2W than anything else because the entire gemstore is P2W.
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This belongs in the Shepard’s Pi-
I mean, Things We Want in the Gemstore Thread…
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/bltc/List-Of-Things-We-Want-In-Gemstore/first
Yeah… that’s what I meant.
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The affect on T6 wouldn’t be huge, everyone can get one. It would balance out in reality. you grind T6 mats through various sources. everyone has access. so you can sell them for gold or buy them. It balances.
Farming a full stack of each T6 material will take you a long time. I estimate at least 6 months.
If you increase the number of precursors, the entire stock of T6 materials will be sold out in seconds and then the new price will climb quickly. I’d (conservatively) estimate to around 2 gold per material which means that buying a full stack of a T6 material will go from approximately 100g to 500g. You need 8 such stacks, so your total T6 material cost per legendary will climb from the current 800g to around 4,000g.
T6 prices also impact nearly every other crafting market (Ascended, potions, sigils, precursor forging, etc.) so those prices will also skyrocket.
Increasing the supply of precursors will be BAD for everyone except the ultra-wealthy as long as the legendary crafting process remains the same.
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The impact on Precursor and Legendary sellers would be minimal. It would be the impact on T6 crafting materials that would be the huge negative impact, which means that every player in the game would be impacted in a pretty severe way.
Did you know that there is only enough Vials of Powerful Blood on the market right now to make 49 Legendaries?
Do you know what would happen to the price of Vials of Powerful Blood if 50 people suddenly got a precursor and bought out the current stock?
Now imagine that same thing happening to the other T6 materials (because they are all in the same boat in terms of supply).
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Hundred Blades at 1500 range while moving…seems legit.
So Hundred Blades can be countered with Reflect or Block now? Cool story.
Nah, you only need to move. That’s a special skill you can use with wasd.
Ways to mitigate Hundred Blades:
1. Move out of the way.
2. Dodge.Ways to mitigate Rapid Fire:
1. Move out of the way (behind an object).
2. Dodge.
3. Reflection.
4. Missile Destruction.
5. Block while at range.I think that the bigger list of mitigation possibilities certainly counters the fact that it can be used at range and while moving.
Ways to mitigate Hundred Blades:
1. Move out of the way.
2. Dodge.
3. Block (How you missed this one when it was in your RF list, I’m not sure)
4. Interrupt (which can theoretically do to RF as well, but you’re guaranteed in range to interrupt a warrior using HB if he can hit you, the same isn’t true of RF)Note, I’m not weighing in on which is better, if either is broken, or anything like that, just fixing some glaring oversights.
I meant to put block in its own category since block has a lot of variables (such as does it stop on first hit? stop on first hit only at range? etc.)
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Hundred Blades at 1500 range while moving…seems legit.
So Hundred Blades can be countered with Reflect or Block now? Cool story.
Nah, you only need to move. That’s a special skill you can use with wasd.
Ways to mitigate Hundred Blades:
1. Move out of the way.
2. Dodge.
Ways to mitigate Rapid Fire:
1. Move out of the way (behind an object).
2. Dodge.
3. Reflection.
4. Missile Destruction.
5. Block while at range.
I think that the bigger list of mitigation possibilities certainly counters the fact that it can be used at range and while moving.
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It is legalese that is wide enough for them to use it for whatever purpose they deem necessary.
Using a “Looking For Group” tool to advertise items for sale violates the Code of Conduct’s (wide) language as well as the “common sense” intent of such a tool.
I’m not saying that they will ban you, I’m saying that they could ban you so you probably shouldn’t do it.
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using the lfg tool to sell items isnt fine and is suspendable? News to me.
Item 7
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/
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They have always stated that advertising player to player trading in game is against the rules. They don’t have a problem with player to player trading, but it is not supported and advertising it is not permitted.
Please provide a link on the forums or the TOS where this is stated. I did my research, I may have missed it, but I’d like to think I’m pretty good at reading comprehension.
Item 7:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/legal/guild-wars-2-rules-of-conduct/
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For the third time, read that post.
He did report them. He got two replies to his ticket, both generic responses having nothing to do with the issue at hand.
Further, the security lead came in and posted that first time offenders will not get a ban, despite displaying behavior that is incredibly detrimental to other players’ experience.
Maybe that’s acceptable to you. The folks who are actually getting harassed and have to deal with having hours of work being repeatedly destroyed by the griefers do not. This sort of behavior should not be tolerated in anyway.
Looks like we’ll just have to differ in our opinions on this.
You will only get generic responses to report tickets because they don’t share their internal decisions or processes with players. That does not mean anything with regard to whether action will be taken or not.
If a guy pops into your group and kicks you without saying anything, of course he won’t get a ban for it because no evidence of anything exists other than the fact that you were kicked. He could have had a legitimate reason for kicking you for all anyone knows.
If he comes in and tries to extort you, he just violated the rules and WILL get a suspension for his “first time offence” because IN GAME evidence exists that he engaged in party system abuse (demanding payment in exchange for no kick). Additionally, if he repeats the behavior he is NOW engaged in harassment (which requires more than one instance) and thus meets the definition of a “habitual abuser” AND a “harasser”, both of which will net him a ban.
I get that you’re hot about this right now as it is destroying your game experience. I’m just trying to get through to you that if anything is being done, you’ll need to wait a bit for results to show so it is premature to come here and blast ArenaNet for supporting harassment.
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Your language is lovely, but I’m not “conflating” (merging) anything.
Thanks for the compliment. I do try to wax eloquent.
I am providing examples as to why the current process of using the LFG tool for selling dungeon paths AND selling items is broken, based on my experiences using the LFG tool in both ways and being greatly harassed.
Using the LFG tool to sell dungeons paths is fine. Using the LFG tool to sell items is not fine. People harassing you is not fine.
At this point I would rather get suspended and KNOW for a fact that Anet condones harassing me and dislikes my selling dungeon paths, etc. so then I’d know for sure! If they don’t come out and say “Don’t do this” instead of “do this at your own risk, we won’t be involved” then who are you to say if I’m right or wrong?
If you get suspended, it would be for using the LFG tool to sell items, not for any other reason (unless you are doing other stuff that I am not aware of). Selling dungeon paths is fine.
I guess my sentimentality is getting the better of me and I should just jack the price up through the TP in order to just dump it, and bypass the process of getting called names and harassed by vigilantes.
Yes, you should list it on the TP. Being called names and being harassed should be reported by you to ArenaNet so that they can investigate it.
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This is more of an issue of time where you are jumping the gun with your accusation that “harassment is allowed”.
Again, read that post.
If someone can join a party, say “Cash or kick!”, then steal the instance and relist it for sale, that is harassment. If they can get away with that sort of disgusting greifing, even once, then it is allowed.
Behavior that is not permitted can still happen. Which is the entire point of having a “report” option. Additionally, “harassment” can never be a single instance as the definition of the term requires it to be repeated behavior.
They can only get away with it as long as it goes unreported. The fact that they are saying “Cash or Kick” means that in-game evidence exists of party system abuse so they WILL get a suspension if you report them.
The fact that they keep doing it to you also means that they are harassing you, which further builds YOUR case against them.
Reporting is not a magic “insta-ban” button that you can use to get rid of them. The reports go into a bin where real people have to really read them and really compare them to the reports that other real people are working on. This is a process that takes time. Hold your horses and let ArenaNet actually address the issue before you go around claiming that harassment is allowed.
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I disagree. The text below from this thread (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/dungeons/Dungeon-owner-sometimes-required/first#post4392439) states specifically otherwise:
“For the time being, exchanging in-game currency or items for a party (in this case – a dungeon run) is not a violation to our Rules of Conduct or the User Agreement.”
You are clearly conflating the issues as described above. This quote does not mention advertising player to player trading in any way and is specifically related to selling dungeon runs.
And also, EVEN IF Anet has a problem with it -
who are you to use vigilante justice to “fix” it?? Why is it okay for my LFG to be harassed by players, instead of simply reported?
Now you are conflating two other issues:
1. Your own not permitted behavior of advertising player to player trades in the LFG tool (which you should cease doing before you get reported into a suspension).
2. Other players’ not permitted behavior of harassing you.
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It’s great to see that harassing people is allowed in this game. I guess now I know why my support ticket has gone unanswered.
Who are you to determine what people are allowed to do in this game, if you aren’t someone who works for Anet?? Why do you think it’s perfectly acceptable to continually join an LFG and call people names for doing something you don’t agree with? If you see something you don’t like, then report it, block the person doing the behavior and MOVE ON.
Your little vigilante group has really proved something, that’s for sure.
If someone is harassing you, report it, block the person doing the behavior and MOVE ON.
Harassment is NOT allowed in GW2.
I disagree. The actions that have been taken against myself and my guildie in the last two days that have been reported and support ticket sent in with specific account names doing the harassment – with no actions taken – pretty much show that harassment is allowed.
It is not allowed. Proving it takes time because real people have to investigate your claims. They aren’t going to ban the people you reported just because you reported them, they have to first look at the facts and circumstances. When action is taken, you also won’t be told about it (though the stop in harassment will probably tip you off as to what happened).
This is more of an issue of time where you are jumping the gun with your accusation that “harassment is allowed”.
Anet – if you DO NOT want players selling dungeons, come right out and SAY IT. If a red post shows up that states “Do not sell items via LFG, do not sell dungeons paths via LFG” then fine, I’ll quit doing it. But everything that I had read up to this point stated that it was “seller beware, but we don’t currently have a problem with it.”
They do not support dungeon selling. It is also not a banned activity.
This means that a lot of what you are doing is a “use at your own risk”. They have always stated that advertising player to player trading in game is against the rules. They don’t have a problem with player to player trading, but it is not supported and advertising it is not permitted.
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At this point, the red post on that thread really confuses me, considering I’ve seen other posts that state they don’t have a problem with selling dungeon paths or items via LFG. I guess there is a reason my support ticket hasn’t been responded to yet, and I won’t hold my breathe for any sort of reasonable response.
I see that Anet really doesn’t care if someone is using harassing behavior. I guess maybe my husband is right, and I should go back to WoW. =/
You are conflating two issues:
1. ArenaNet does not have a problem with you Selling Dungeon Paths.
2. ArenaNet does not have a problem with player to player trading.
ArenaNet DOES have a problem with you using ingame systems to advertise player to player trading because they do not support it.
They specifically have a problem with you using the LFG tool to advertise for your player to player trading because that is NOT what the LFG tool is designed to be used for.
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It’s great to see that harassing people is allowed in this game. I guess now I know why my support ticket has gone unanswered.
Who are you to determine what people are allowed to do in this game, if you aren’t someone who works for Anet?? Why do you think it’s perfectly acceptable to continually join an LFG and call people names for doing something you don’t agree with? If you see something you don’t like, then report it, block the person doing the behavior and MOVE ON.
Your little vigilante group has really proved something, that’s for sure.
If someone is harassing you, report it, block the person doing the behavior and MOVE ON.
Harassment is NOT allowed in GW2.
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Did they make the end game content easier with the new feature pack?
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He’s insinuating that leveling new characters is endgame content in GW2.
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Hundred Blades at 1500 range while moving…seems legit.
So Hundred Blades can be countered with Reflect or Block now? Cool story.
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Ok, so hopefully reporting them for “abuse of the LFG tool” should find results.
I now have a new hobby.
So is griefing these players using the LFG to sell items allowed?
Obviously ANet cannot do anything if either party gets scammed in such a transaction, but is griefing them permitted in the same way as stealing instances from dungeon sellers?
I’m not sure if you are naturally daft or if you are just playing a foolish person on the internet, but your depiction of what was said is very, very inaccurate.
ArenaNet cannot determine the reason why someone was kicked (and there are a variety of legitimate reasons to kick someone). This means that when you are illegitimately kicked from your own instance, you have to report it for them to know about it.
Because there isn’t any data on why you were kicked, they have to rely on some other metric to determine if someone is abusing the LFG tool, and that metric would be quantity of reports.
They are NOT giving the OK to LFG griefers. They are admitting that catching those people is difficult and requesting you to assist them by properly reporting them when they grief you.
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I have about a dozen starter scrolls that I have no other plans for….can these be burned for quicker access to the BL keys (I get this is not a permanent solution)?
Yes, as they move you up past level 10 (and thus unlock your personal story).
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Either that or you’ve played since the last patch lol.
Because of the massive Rapid Fire buffs, eh? Deals the same damage as before and is easier to dodge or block now.
It is more effective at killing bad/unaware/improperly specced players though thanks to its new bursty nature.
Once everyone figures out the specs that are needed to counter it, Longbow Rangers will drop into the middle of the pack and become noob hunters (which does sound fun).
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I’m in favor of anything that cuts into the demand for gold sellers (since lower demand means less gold sellers which means less gold seller spam which means less things I have to report).
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