At a 20,000 ft level (which would be rather frightening if it actually happened, especially if you just found yourself suspended there, not knowing how it happened or with any means to change your situation), it seems to be an odd question.
Something like this is an incentive to get new people to do something.
When you drive by an apartment complex that has a sign out front that says “Move in special: First Month Utilities Free!”, do you think to yourself, “That’s pretty slick, all those people that already live there get one free month of utilities too!”
I guess I don’t understand why an MMO promotion needs to include free things for people who are already here when it’s just that – a promotion to get people here. You are here, you don’t need a promotion.
Just thinking about this again at 20,000 ft (since I’m apparently stuck there now and can’t move, and it’s rather cold and drafty, and whoever thought to put me there didn’t bother giving me a jacket). 
I mostly like everything. Hard to put numbers in front of them.
1. Everyone is a Party – This should cover most of the mechanics in the game that don’t require you to be in a party, which is a mechanic that should go away. I suppose it serves a purpose so you can see the dots of other people you want to do things with. A special color for chatting with just a few people, that could be covered by letting us set up custom chat channels. But things like no node tapping, no monster tagging, downed state, rezzing and bulk rezzing, lots of things like that all lead to everyone playing together anyways even though you aren’t in a party. I have never played more with people I don’t know in a game than this one. Dragons, Hearts, DEs, WvW.
2. Graphics. Both the environment and character models. Very nice.
3. I ‘mostly’ like that there is no trinity, which is a mechanic I hate ‘only’ in practice (very sound in principle) because of how it shakes out in a world of people who can be pretty mean to each other. 
Now, having said that, I don’t like that as a result you can’t be a ‘big’ healer. I wish there was a way to not have the trinity, but still be able to be those roles, which would then just put the trinity back in the hands of the players enforcing it in party make up, which defeats the purpose. Good idea; could use some work.
4. Combat. I like the dodging, that you can move while fighting (and mostly casting). I’m glad they didn’t go FPS Modern Call of Warfaring Doody 34: Wrasslin vs NASCAR Edition, that wouldn’t have been very fun. One of the reasons I like to play MMOs is because they mostly still revolve around combat cycles vs twitch.
5. Downscaling.
Honorable Mention: Players Helping Players forum.
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Put the other memory back, still behaves this way when I open the friends UI. I guess it’s the monitor (TV).
Only with the friends UI is open? Doesn’t that seem odd? I don’t suppose anyone has any thoughts or suggestions on that one?
As long as you don’t need to play TSW in DX11 (and are willing to settle for DX9/Minecraft/Money for Nothing Mode), then Windows 8 is great.
Thanks. Yeah that farm was the one I was looking for. Guess they don’t want you sitting around and logging a character in every hour to pick up lots of lettuce.
Alright, thank you.
Try making a new character, putting the clothes in your bank, and deleting said new character.
Heard it works.
I heard it worked too, but you reminded me to test it. I did, and unless there is some grace period you have to wait, it still says “soulbound to another character”.
So you HAVE to use 2 transmute stones?
My guardian used a ‘Fine’ transmutation stone (since those legs are 80) to move the look onto the white armor, keeping the stats of the white armor (and thank god you can transmute things your class couldn’t ordinarily use).
Even though the stones warn ‘soulbound’, they are in fact account bound. Drop it in the bank. Ranger comes in, picks up the white piece that looks like the Vigil legs now. Uses a ‘Basic’ transmutation stone to apply the look to her 60th level legs.
Whoa I thought you could only transmute armor in the same armor class (like heavy to heavy).
So I can have my elementalist dress like a warrior? =O
No, sorry. I think what they meant was that their guardian was the one who had access to the vigil vendor. A guardian could buy light or medium armour for transmutation but couldn’t equip it.
Yeah, what Lexy said.
So you HAVE to use 2 transmute stones?
If you want to do it the way I did it, yes.
I ran up my third character to the point where she could join the Vigil. I gave her money and she went and bought the Vigil legs. I bought the cheapest medium legs (white) from a standard armor vendor with the lowest level character I could. My guardian used a ‘Fine’ transmutation stone (since those legs are 80) to move the look onto the white armor, keeping the stats of the white armor (and thank god you can transmute things your class couldn’t ordinarily use).
Even though the stones warn ‘soulbound’, they are in fact account bound. Drop it in the bank. Ranger comes in, picks up the white piece that looks like the Vigil legs now. Uses a ‘Basic’ transmutation stone to apply the look to her 60th level legs.
And now I have a Whisper top/Vigil leg outfit.
She’ll have to use basics any time she upgrades those two pieces, until she gets to 80, at which point she’ll need to use a Fine for the final application (assuming I still like those pieces when she gets there). And if I step through a set of Yellow first before Exotic, that’d be 4 stones (2 to apply to the yellow; another 2 later when I build my Exotics). So I’ll probably start planning ahead before I get there, and hopefully with my main farming for her, I can get her crafting up to 400 so I can make them before I get there, and be able to jump right into at least those 2 pieces of exotics (which is where I stop).
That path worked for me on the double transmutation. It wasn’t until after I had bought the legs that I realized I’d never tried to transmute something I could use on a character. Thank god that worked. I would have been out 1.8, which isn’t a lot to some people, but a lot to me.
You don’t get better loot from a monster if you’re in a party but the chances that a killed monster gives you XP and/or loot becomes higher when you’re in a party.
If you’re alone it seems you need to damage a monster for about ~5% of its maximum health to get experience and about ~15-25% to get loot.
However if you’re in a party you only have to damage a monster slightly to get XP and/or loot from it as long as your entire party dealt enough damage to it.So yes, being in a party doesn’t gives you better but at least more loot.
I might debate the increased % to get loot. I’ve barely touched things and have gotten loot off them before. Most probably below 15% (but I couldn’t prove that if I had to).
But if it’s true that the entire party’s contribution effects it, only needing to contribute a smaller number when alone, then that would be a significant reason to group when running around in an area killing monsters to ensure everyone gets as much as they can.
Still not entirely convinced it would mean anything on something big? Unless you weren’t there for the entire event and had run up at the end and wanted to be sure you got something out of it, getting one hit in and having someone invite you quick before it’s over might mean something vs nothing.
Now, whether that makes sense or not is for another topic altogether. I think I’ll stay out of that.
I guess it’s run it’s course and I’ll mark yours as the answer.
Thanks everyone. It gives me more to think about when it’s offered and I hear people talking about it.
Well it IS obvious, it’s just also obviously anecdotal.
It’s just like people saying MF works vs people saying MF doesn’t work.
The truth it is DOES work, it’s just RNG so it might not always work for you, leaving you with a negative opinion towards it.
Well, obvious yes and obvious no.
If you mean by obvious as the other poster stated, that theoretically in a group you would clear things faster, and then have more opportunities, and hopefully over time produce more, then sure.
But the part that isn’t obvious is whether there is truly any sort of ‘party bonus’ to the system. Wherein if you are alone, your chances are x1. If you are in a 2 person party, your chances at x2, if you are in a 3 person party, x3, etc. And also, does the party count as ‘one’ thing with respect to the loot tapping rule. If one person in a party never touches a mob, but some of the other people do, do you get a roll (should it be determined anything would drop for you had you been alone and tapped it to begin with)? I would see that as a possible benefit as well, as it might also impact your gold/silver/bronze status? Thinking out loud.
So take something like Jormag. Everyone runs up saying ‘lfg’. Now, in the beginning, if we’re talking about the ‘obvious’ part of being in a group and clearing more stuff, if you manage to kills lots of those elementals as a group as well as get gold status on those ice crystal things, then maybe there’d be some benefit there based on ‘that’ part which we agree might be obvious.
What isn’t obvious is whether when you then go kill Jormag, and you are in a group, do you have, by rule, a better chance at getting ‘item x’ then me, who is alone? Clearly the obvious rule doesn’t apply at Jormag, because there is only one of him and one chest at the end. The party doesn’t kill many Jormags in the time it takes me to kill one, thereby getting more chances at the RNG?
And by rule, I don’t mean RNG experiences over time and opinion, but rather, is there a ‘group bonus’ rule in effect that improves each members chances of receiving each tier of item the bigger the party is?
Or is the ‘we need to be in a party’ some sort of mythology that grew out of the grouping that goes on in the area for, say, Trolls, which really is about quantity and brute force and chances at the RNG per time spent, and that was somehow translated to ‘well i heard if you are in a group you get better loot’?
I guess that’s what I’m asking.
Now, if ‘group bonus’ rules are confirmed, then making sure everyone is in a group would have an impact on how well you might do at Jormag.
Now, to be clear, it doesn’t pre-roll to see what’s inside, then stop you from ‘identifying’ it. That part was a little unclear in your post. You will always be able to use an unidentified dye, at which point it’ll roll and give you something, and the product of ‘that’ you will either already know (and not be able to use) or not know and be able to consume.
Ok, so thus far, mostly speculation, barring the increased chance perhaps purely through increased volume, especially when you are doing something like farming trolls, which would make a lot of sense (@Drarnor).
Well if I don’t see any sort of grand claim with data to back it up, I’ll use Rainzar’s answer to mark it completed in a day or two, since that one basically sums it all up (we don’t know, Anet knows, they aren’t saying).
Thanks folks. I figured if there were something obvious that I was just oblivious too, I would have gotten something more definitive.
I’m not sure where to post this other than general, but not opposed to having it go anywhere.
I did see someone posting about their swords, and didn’t think much about it (yesterday) as I was all up in a bother about jumping.
I’m noticing my Ranger now, when her single handed axe and horn are holstered, it looks weird. I think it looks better when it just clipped your clothes. Now they seem to be floating around out in space off my hips in mid air? I mean, I know two handed weapons do that, but it just looks weird with the single handed weapons.
Just an opinion. Not sure how anyone else feels about it.
is it spam to send more than 2 mails to your guild mates?
they dont even make a difference between guild mates, friends and random people,
everything is spam, botters have no problem to find a work around
only we normal players sufferi really badly hate this in gw2
It’s a lot like the TSA. Reactionary solutions to threats rather than pro-active solutions that target the real problem. I presume because it’s cheaper? I suspect the change to the jumping mechanic, which then broke jumping for everyone, that they had to revert, was another reactionary tactic to solve a problem that ‘the bad guys’ are using, and as a result, impacted all the rest of us who are just trying to play.
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Reverted a change to the jump mechanic that impacted the timing of jumps
Where in the original patch notes was there this?
Made a change to the jump mechanic because…
The patch note didn’t say they fixed something that was accidentally messed up by something else, it specifically called out reverting the change.
May I ask what was wrong with jumping that you tried to originally fix?
This is whats bothering me. If the change didn’t make it into patch notes, did QA even know about it?
And then I asked in another thread, and the answer was “well we fixed a problem that was causing jumping not to work”, and the thread was closed. I don’t care that the thread was closed, had an answer been provided. That was circular.
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I’d just like to know what was wrong with jumping that they felt they needed to fix, and then had to revert back, because the fix was off the mark. Am I not asking this correctly? Someone throw me a bone here and help me ask the question.
Edit: Found this over in the game bug thread, maybe this was it.
The fix to prevent people from spam jumping up walls and obstacles might have been the source. Well if that’s the case, that is a good thing to fix, can’t complain about that. Hopefully they find a way to fix that without impacting the rest of us.
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Ah, excellent. That’s a good introduction to puzzle jumping in there.
For what it’s worth, I found that if I double-tapped the jump key each time I intended to jump quickly, it always registered a jump. Though I didn’t have a ‘lot’ of testing with it, I only needed to run to my borderland’s jump puzzle after the patch and take the two key halves to the door. Double-jumping at each jump was the only thing that got me there.
Actually the 2nd to the last run was the funniest, as I double-jumped all the way there, and then on the last little floating rock before the last little jump up to run to the door, I got over confident and decided to just do a normal jump and fell. Double-jumped the whole thing on the final run, and that’s how it earned it’s name.
You can see what the effect is by going to lions arch and going to the ramp directly to the left, walking out of the bank. Run at the ramp and jump right as you hit the lip of that ramp going down.
What happens is you are in a “falling” state for a split second so it prevent you from jumping and instead pulls you down.
This is adverse to what the jumping physics previously were because you were able to begin a slight fall for a split second and still input a jump command to gain some extra distance into your jump.
So they either “fixed” the physics or “broke” some jumping puzzles that used to require you to jump certain distances that were REALLY picky on how close to the edge you were when you jumped.
Now add latency into the mix and you can see how being too precise on when the player inputs a jump command can cause issues.
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This is pretty interesting, because then it would seem to indicate this might be the result of some stealth nerf they didn’t want to say anything about, no? Maybe they ‘fixed’ the physics as you say to prevent a class from cheating with the physics at something (or maybe related to all those node teleporters), and the result broke our ability to jump?
I can pull off a jump the way I intended every time if I always double-tap the space bar to jump. It’s not much of a work around though, as it really breaks all the hand/eye muscle memory work I put in to get me to a point where I can do borderlands with the step off on the branch trick all the way through without falling.
Now I just walk off stuff if I don’t double jump.
I’m not entirely sure what this thread is about, but I really felt compelled to stop by and comment that your title would make an excellent band name.
Carry on.
Something Wrong, with this. They broke this fixing something. Some DEV was fixing something and caused an nuclear disaster inside this system.
My money is on a direct tie in with the boxing glove fix.