The solution is quite simple. Every time a kick is requested a council of 10 players is randomly summoned to pass judgement on the situation. Both kicker and kickee may represent themselves or pick someone to represent them. To encourage this, each member of the council recieves 5AP and each representative 10AP every time.
This fixes both the kicking issue and the 21k+ requirement for the future complete hellfire/radiant set.
You like burst AND sustain? You want both single target AND AoE?
You want “somebody who has a lot of tools” but at the same time you hate " having 13957081395 different tools to use"?
Well I tried to make a topic that includes all the common complaints so this subforum doesn’t look like LA mapchat. Aaaand into the thrashcan it went. Apparently it was not related to “Dungeons” but all this bullkitten “I hate stacking/skipping” and “I hate dredge nerf plz” is.
At first I hated the idea. But come to think of it…I want to see where I stand in the race to 50. Probably position 10,341 but still. It’s nice to see my name up there.
Anet please make this happen.
Also for those of us who mostly pugged our way there..I think we deserve a pretty purple star next to our name and the title “Braveheart”.
Adding “all welcome” is as likely to get an experienced group as any other tag I’ve seen. The only difference is that you are less likely to get some guy who has run the path twice rage quitting because of “n00bs” at a wipe.
Nope. You can kick people if they don’t respect the words that no one ever reads included in the LFG post. Kicking after you said “all welcome” means you’re a kitten.
I don’t understand how anyone can think this, ive been tossing out dragonite by the stack. It drops WAY too much, i already have enough bricks to gear up all 8 of my chars in ascended if i ever wanted too and i have random stacks cluttering up all my chars. If anything drop rate needs to be lowered to about a fifth of what it is now. I don’t even know where empyreal shards drop, i think i have like zero.
Hey OP. So many words! Great post!
You make a lot of valid yet innovative points!
I was not aware people are unhappy the three main things you listed.
First one. It’s obvious that some people might be a bit upset(still??) about their progress being deleted but as you said it was for the best. How would they experience those amazingly thought-out instabilities otherwise? For sure they wouldn’t just spam 38 and 49 until getting to 50, right? That would be..crazy.
Second. Dredge? Why are they not fun? It’s a really interesting mechanic for mobs to respawn endlessly. It also requires communication so is it really that bad? Improving the social aspect is a big mmo focus that games rarely get right.
Third one. What is rewarding or not is quite subjective. All in all , isn’t the experience itself the reward? It’s the journey not the destination. Just like in real life.
I’ve seen some zerkers leeroy jenkin’d the seals at cliffside, or facetanked Arch Diviner, or even worse, range-bursted him when his reflection was on and wiped the whole melee party.
Still better than getting magi gear people doing the same. You can always ask them to ping weapons too. It’s not 100% guarantee but you can’t quiz them on tactics..or can you?
Excuse him for not making it clear to you: when you range bosses, they stop using certain attacks. Just like when you range lupicus he doesn’t kick or swipe you. Or when Ginva the butch can’t hit you with his axe whirl. Or when the Archdiviner can’t hit you with his hammer bash. You can do the same thing with most bosses: when you stay at range and kite them, they bug out and stop using some/most/all attacks.
Aww it’s cute <3 Ignoring how bosses bug out when stuck in a wall and throwing a few jokes “if you range you exploit” <3.
I might have wrongly assumed that the Spider Queen bugs when near a wall/pillar, just like Alpha used to bug (don’t know, it’s been a year since we didn’t bother to try to do that) when pushed into a wall. Or Dwayna stops attacking.
So using your 3 examples we have one (spider) that youre wrong about, a second (Alpha) that has since been fixed for months, and a third (Dwayna) that is a world boss. This isn’t exactly proving your point that stacking is an exploit.
Or when they decide I’m not selling arah p1/p3(legit but who cares) but actually they known in their heart I want to do AC story. They always recommend me that.
Yea this game definitely needs more open world content. Why not make all the dungeons open world so pve commanders and their zerglings can conquer them!
I mean..look at all those successful attempts at tequatl and wurm and marionette..
So you’re saying there are people who break instances just for fun? That’s silly talk. If that was the case I am pretty sure devs would be looking into it. Or at least they would say they would.
Do full runs. It’s mostly easier and you can gearcheck. CoE is one of the best ones to do this. AC is one of the worst. Don’t compromise. People seem to accept “tank” gear on guardians. Don’t be that guy.
You can safely pug arah without any gearchecks. P2 is the best one because pugs kick themselves after failing to skip to belka or abo. It’s fun stuff.
You can’t earn respect from a forever changing zerg. They are called zergs for a reason.
tl;dr People would rather fail forever than degrade themselves by following orders from a random guy that had 100g because even if said guy explains tactics in detail he’s just not the boss of anyone!
I spammed map chat with the advanced tactic of ranging warden 3. Guess what happened. Guess!
Because every bad group posts “need guard!” like it’s a mandatory thing, especially in fractals. They develop a hero complex and they actually think they’re the reason everybody is alive while spamming wave of wrath in magi gear.
Also try to convince one of them to stop using empower when you’re trying to blast fire fields.
So “zerkers” are greatsword warriors. Makes sense.
2-3% toughness will not reduce 100b to 200/hit and even if it did that’s a 100x reduction, considering said warrior is like alone in the dungeon. If the rewards are increased only 3 fold..well I hope you see where this is going. Probably not.
GG OP. Top notch intellect right there.
Has anyone noticed how they straight up cancel player progression?
Magic find gear removed. You may not agree with the stats but people still did work for that, especially if they used ascended trinkets. They gave the option to change to other stats. Big whoop. A lot of people already had all the stats versions they needed. Level of compensation=minimal
Fractal reset. Never forget. Compensation=0. Bonus: a bunch of lies about a fictional leaderboard no one wanted and it’s not even implemented at this point. If ever.
Berserker gear nerf. Or should I say assassin more. Just introduced, recently, gonna get nerfed to the ground in the future “big” patch. Compensation=-1000. Congrats, now your full ascended armor is maybe less than current exotics. Unless you run carebear magi. Then you can make posts about how they should add increased taken damage to dps gear.
They got a nice carrot going, too bad they slap you in the face with it.
damage=power*weapon strength*skill coeficient*modifiers*crit modifier/target armor
skill coeficient=skill specific modifier. usually they’re on wiki but I think you can calculate them by deducing them from the above formula and the damage shown on the tool-tip. Not sure if trait modifiers affect it or not. Probably not. Crit modifier certainly doesn’t. Game assumes target armor to be 2600.
modifiers=any damage modifiers like 5% sigil of force, scholar runes blabla..each multiplied with each other
crit modifier=chance*(crit damage+1.5)+(1-chance)
To make things easier you model them like this: if your chance is 65% and your crit damage is 50% the crit modifier will be=0.65*(1.5+0.5)+0.35. Basically calculate the division so 10% being 10/100 becomes 0.1 etc.
Please don’t use the “attack” thing from hero panel as any sort of reference, it’s just a silly thing no one cares for.
Remember to factor in your rotations. Easiest way to do this is mindlessly attack the training things in LA.
The zerker/assassin split was done because it allowed for almost max critical chance without any perception sigil stacks, given certain things like food, banner, spotter maybe and the like. So people could stack bloodlust instead.
So never actually did any path yet still you think they’re hard because some people think they’re hard and told you that and you accept it as pure fact instead of personal opinion.
Pugging is not optional. It’s mandatory. Guilds are optional. Embrace #puglife.
To have the absolute best in slot you need full ascended with omni infusions. Now full ascended you guys probably have an idea about what it costs. The omni infusions are around 120-150g/piece and you need around 16 of them. Do the math. Say it’s not grindy.
So you guys actually believe the only reason we don’t have FoW, UW etc. is because of lore?
Look at the more “difficult” new fights in the game. They’re all open world and fail 99% of the time just because of that. They try to cater to 2 audiences at the same time: the casual open world mob-taggers and hardcore players who desire meaningful content, messing up both in the process. Organised groups could melt through tequatl, worms, marionette without any issues.
Casuals fail those same events because they’re too hard for them and they’re there just to get gilded strongboxes and APs. They even made a lot of the world bosses less afk-mode. Just let people enjoy their thing without these silly overlaps.
Their heart might be in the right place, their logic certainly isn’t.
People roll swamp for a certain reason. The other first tier fractals suck. Actually the whole fractal tier thing is silly.
Ascalon is not so easy at level 49 and NPCs bug out sometimes. I don’t know about others but the whole fractal is a lagfest for me. Like really bad, especially the first part with the open area and with those dumb knockbacks that just annoy you.
Water is..ok I guess with forcing people to do underwater content and at higher levels maybe they actually read the skill description on weapons. But the last boss is painful. It has ton of HP at lower levels already. At 49 is like watching dipteras engange in intercourse.
But the main reason is next fractal might be dredge.
I feel your pain. Keg Brawl and Crab Toss are the greatest activities out there. They require actual skill to a certain point.
Also you forgot to mention the way balancing works. I can’t say how many times I was 3 vs 1 because I don’t know..reasons I guess. My only chance was if one of those was afk or all were really bad. You can’t do much against 2 people knocking you down permanently while the 3rd happily runs away with the keg. You only have 3 dodges. Bonus points if he/she laughs and calls you “noob”.
