Can I talk about my feelings also?
As for a sample, I got my 77 Clovers using 192 shards/coins/ectos. I used the 10x recipe till i got 70 clovers and the 1x recipe for the extra 7. Sorry I didn’t keep track of the number of times I did each of the 10x and 1x recipes.
That puts me at a total of 411,600 karma for clovers and a grand total of 928,200 karma for my legendary. (all grind is done, just waiting for a unbugged balth to finish)
Looks like my clovers are going to cost close to double what yours have, whilst I am using the same 10 recipe.
Not sure why people have issues with the monthly. I completed the January one on 3rd of January. It got me really involved in both dungeons and WvW, which previously I hated, now I love them. Thats what the weekly and monthlys should be about. Getting people involved in activities that they otherwise wouldn’t. Promoting players not to do just one or two things. It stops players from grinding and gets players out there exploring all the things there is to do inside Tyria and out.
They’re not hard, they’re tedious. Being forced into WvW and Fractals every month gets tiring. People just want variety to the monthly. Doing the same thing for 6 MONTHS is boring. How about instead of fractals they add dungeons in there again?
Its around 1 hour a month of playing fractals. I hardly consider that tedious. And do ask me about people who don’t WvW, I don’t have a high opinion of them.
It is a WvW thing. Server jumping ruins the game. Using in game gold is possible, you just have to buy gems with gold. Its the same thing if they were to give the gold option, it would need to be the same price to match exchange, otherwise one way would be cheaper.
From an oceanic point of view, which server is best to join?
Do both IoJ and CD have reasonably presence at this time (around 1am to 5am PST)?IoJ is one of the unofficial Oceanic servers and should have a good Oceanic prescence. However Oceanic hours is my main play time and FA has been doing about the same as IoJ in these hours over the last two weeks.
I don’t know how much difference Oceanic is making at present. In previous weeks we had solid numbers and sometimes outnumbered during Oceanic timezone, but right now I am getting out manned buff every borderland I go to and I am from the Oceanic region and play during their prime time. We are still getting hit by 3x the number of CD players as we have in total and FA have slightly more numbers than us during my timezone from my experience.
I haven’t really noticed a drop in numbers from IoJ. Id expect a drop considering all the Zergs from CD we have faced and been outnumbered 3:1 constantly… since its frustrating to be beat on pure numbers. I think the whole outnumbered thing is really wierd, CD always had more numbers than us, but to see such a huge fluctuation is outright unusual. There seems to be nothing sound that would explain it, other than maybe organized server hopping.
Not sure why people have issues with the monthly. I completed the January one on 3rd of January. It got me really involved in both dungeons and WvW, which previously I hated, now I love them. Thats what the weekly and monthlys should be about. Getting people involved in activities that they otherwise wouldn’t. Promoting players not to do just one or two things. It stops players from grinding and gets players out there exploring all the things there is to do inside Tyria and out.
I know that on HoD the servers are constantly packed in Queensdale and Wayfarer Foothills. I recently transferred to IoJ, where I have mostly been playing WvW, but occasionally jump onto Wayfarer Foothills and everytime I’ve been there, there have been 30-40+ players in the small area I play (around frozen maw event chain).
Guess Ill continue to skip this then, whilst telling my team to hurry up.
Sounds like a Warrior would appeal to you more.
Id be more inclined to say things like repairing structures (walls), building siege, capturing points, defending points etc etc would be be better options (aka things that everyone should be doing). I see upgading camps as a tactical decision made by a commander and as such only those directly under their command will usually be doing it.
Dont report if your not sure, because you can get banned for making false reports. Also, your wasting your time reporting, they will not do anything about it. There are measures they can take to detect bots so if they are serious about it, it shouldn’t be needed for players to report.
Personally I think all stack sizes are way too small for 250. So much for “deposit all collectables” when you already got 250 in your collectables and another 2k in the bank.
There are some good mid level areas. I quite like Herathi Hinterlands and Dredgehaunt cliffs for example. I started a thread yesterday regarding Southsun Cove and how I visited there for the first time on the weekend since the event and was surprised at how there was basically nothing happening there apart from karka shell, orichalcum, passion flower and ancient wood farming.
Ore is still a better area than Southsun, because at least it has events, but its a constantly annoying area with constant aggro from risen. You deal with it, but why bother being there when the rewards are no better than other easier areas.
I think GW2 development team has changed there focus and now want to move people over to dungeons/WvW and drop working on the open world. Thats my impression right now.
The only real issue I have with them is because of the way the game is built, they can pretty much have perma stealth. That makes them OP.
I’m completely fine with ascended gear. I am currently fully kitted out with exotics and I have just started working towards acquiring ascended gear now. It gave me something else to work towards and fill in the gap between legendarys, which take up way too much time. I am currently not in a guild at all and after learning to use the LFG website I realised just how easy it was to get a team together for fractals, even when I play during off-peak times as I am from the oceanic region.
@Levi.
I think you are correct on the server population issue. I tracked my server for a week and it read full 24/7, this is not the case.
The most common sense answer is the population indicators show characters made on those servers, not people logged in.
I transferred from Henge of Denravi almost 2 weeks ago to Isle of Janthir. There are less people in PvE there, despite IoJ being listed as very high whilst HoD was only “high”. The reason for this is because there are alot more people in WvW than in HoD. And by alot more, I mean thousands. Meanwhile, everytime I have been in HoDs straights of Devestation you get 200 players “üncontesting” the temple. Meanwhile in IoJ, the first time I go there I had to try it with what ended up only being 10 people (where we failed obviously). The population size of a server would more accurately reflect the WvW population than the PvE population at present. At least I believe the lower pop servers are more likely to have a larger amount of PvE players from my experience.
Yeah, Black Lions trading post. Every week they have had ~3 items on sale. Last week was the skins, week before was salvage kits, boosters… this week nothing.
Dont know about that, I heard the sub level 75s had a big nerf on precursor drops a while back. Once I start getting serious about going for it, Ill be crafting level 80 exotics.
From 100 obsidians, using the 10 recipe, I have 30 mystic clovers. I also got back 20 crystals last night, which was a surprise as I haven’t read that this is a possible return from the mystic forge. But despite being advised to use the 10 recipe, the couple of times I did the Philo recipe seemed to be doing better for me.
Im pretty sure GW2 has had specials every week that were released on a Friday (Saturday Morning for me). I was in the habit of checking every Saturday morning, but none this week?
Pve isnt dead but not as popuar as wvw fotm and dungeons also lions arch dwellers.
I feel bad for all the engineers necromancers in etc i come across in pve because im just thinking to myself “You shouldnt have chose that class nobody will accept you unless you’re guardian warrior or sometimes thief” Not saying i wouldnt accept em i dont judge professions im just saying a high amount do.
I main a Necro and play FoTM and other dungeons every day. Never had a single issue with anyone complaining about my class. Not sure why you would think people do.
As for PvE being dead, I have NFI what your talking about. I can’t go two minutes without running into people everywhere I go. Sure there are is a bigger spread going to WvW and dungeons, but there are still people everywhere. I can only guess that maybe its the server you are playing on.
Yeah I got the impression they feel WvW is close to being exactly what they want. RIP WvW.
If your not even 80 yet, forget about this bit. Focus on simple bits like acquiring mystic clovers. By time you have most of the other stuff you need, fingers and toes crossed, scavenger hunt will be implemented. Go buy your obsidian shards and salvage ectos and make sure you do all your dailys and monthlys for mystic coins and throw them in the mystic forge with some crystals from myani.
Ive put around 1000 rares into the mystic forge and put the subsequent exotics I got from those in and I dont have a precursor.
Anyone who is about to start working towards a legendary now, should leave the precursor until last IMO. Im personally just going to work on upgrading my characters from exotics to ascended.
I don’t think I understand the points system correctly. Can someone explain? Pretty much everytime I checked for the last 36hours, IoJ has had slightly more contested areas, but FA has increased the lead by almost 4k during that period. What else is used to calculate server score?
I don’t think they will fix WvW.
I was here for the event but missed the ending. On the weekend I decided to head over there to see how things had changed since the event. I ran into a few people, but there doesn’t seem like there is really anything to do. No Dynamic events were happening and there are no quests or anything to do. Seems like its just a farm zone for Karka shells, orichalcum, elder logs and passion flowers. The area looks amazing and the way the Karka react to you and fight you is hilarious, but what is there to do? I presumed it was going to be like other 80 areas like Orr were dynamic events were constantly going on. After completely exploring the areas I just left because there was a lack of things to do.
To add to this question, I believe some food effects stack in duration, but not all?
Add kill count to total server score and a respawn timer on death. I know alot of people won’t like that, in fact I think they would hate it, but when I kill 5 players in a zerg I want to know that it is going to cost them. It currently does nothing, Im better off going to try to find a zerg myself.
How do you join overflow by choice? Assuming no one in the party is in overflow so you can’t just click to join their oveflow.
It is quite difficult to do, if its the year 1993.
I dont go to that area because there is always a Asura spamming my headset telling me “It only funny to fail if you try” or something to that effect. Most annoying thing ever. It literally makes me not go to that area.
I use staff + Axe/warhorn. I mostly use my staff, but when I am on the move I switch to Axe/Warhorn for swiftness on 5. During a team fight I mostly use staff because it deals more damage for my build on multiple targets. When chasing down retreating enemy, I often switch to Axe Warhorn for swiftness and cripple as well as more single target damage. When retreating myself I switch to it for 2 cripples and swiftness.
I think I should point out I play “tankromancer” in WvW and when zerg meets zerg, my objective is to get into the middle of that zerg and cripple them all. I have over 34k health without buffs and that goes up to 46k while is LF, which also has a massive AoE cripple and for some reason people have difficulty targetting me whilst in this form. Once thats finished I still have DS for my get out of jail free card.
Im still working on the build, but I dont have the highest stat gear yet either and Im working/experimenting on it still. But with the way I play and build my Necro, Axe/Warhorn is my best secondary setup.
I also have noticed a higher percentage of idiots in dungeons too. I just play it out, try to keep the group working towards the objective to get the dungeon complete, then block the jerk afterwards so I don’t accidently play with them again.
I have 6 with full exotics and know alot of people who do. I stopped levelling classes a while back though to farm legendarys and ascended gear and to play WvW. Considering there are alot more hardcore players out there, I am sure there are plenty of players with 8 classes at 80. Oh and I didnt start this game until a fair few weeks after release.
Interesting thread. I have actually noticed a reduction as well. I figured it was because my team is getting a bit of a hammering this week, but Ive still been getting alot of kills.
Seems like alot of Tiers have problems with either taking to long to climb up in tiers or taking to long to drop to an appropriate level. Why not simply have one team drop, one team go up and one team stay in the same tier each week.
To give an example right now. I am from CD/FA/IoJ server. CD has significant numbers this week and are dominating. So CD should move up as they will win the tier. Whoever scores last moves down. Whoever finished middle stays in the tier.
The system isn’t accomodating for the fluctuation of numbers as it can take several weeks just to go up/down one tier.
Congratulations on this weeks win CD LOL. Wow I had a 20 minute queue this morning on IoJ homeland, only to find when I get in there that we are outnumbered by more than 2 to 1. Then come the golems. WvW is no fun when there is no numbers balance. I wish they would do something to balance the WvW, because eventually this kind of stuff is going to turn people away from GW2.
Goes back to what I said last week. Morale management is serious business. IoJ does seem to be going down hill though. The only explanation I could find of them not falling behind FA already is because in previous weeks, both CD and FA are too busy fighting each other for most times of the day to bother working on IoJ borderland, which allowed them to quietly accrue points in the background. There shall be more shuffling yet.
Not really anything to do with morale. There have been almost 3 times the numbers of CD players in IoJ borderlands all day today and they have been throwing alot of coin around with numerous Omega and Alpha siege gollems. I jumped in FA at one stage and it was the same thing, I couldn’t get out of my spawn location because there were just too many CD there. CD had also capped up almost all of FA’s bordland points during the day, which is why we are still ahead of them. It’s to do with attrition. WvW is almost entirely a numbers game. It doesn’t matter how good your tactics are, how skilled your players are or how well your commanders lead. What matters is how good your guild/server recruitment is and how well guilds can do at engaging players to contribute towards WvW. From my perspective, this system is flawed and eventually it will start eating away at itself if Anet doesn’t change it.
Congratulations on this weeks win CD LOL. Wow I had a 20 minute queue this morning on IoJ homeland, only to find when I get in there that we are outnumbered by more than 2 to 1. Then come the golems. WvW is no fun when there is no numbers balance. I wish they would do something to balance the WvW, because eventually this kind of stuff is going to turn people away from GW2.
Well played by all servers. Was a very enjoyable round.
I think its dependent on the enemy and a number of factors. If you attack first, obviously it will target you first. Also Ive noticed with some, if you are dealing the most damage it will switch to attack you. Its situational though from my experience.
Ill mark Eir among my conquests.
Prior to GW2 I had never played an MMO. I don’t find GW2 boring at all. Put that one on the “never played an MMO before, but doesn’t find GW2 boring” tally.
Almost everyone who has a legendary have used an exploit at some point or have just purchased them using real money given to gold farmers. So shouldn’t they all be getting investigated and possibly banned?
I disagree. If I hadn’t levelled 6 characters at once, I would have at least one legendary now. If I was serious about getting one, I could have one in the next couple of weeks. But Im not interested because none of them appeal to my builds for my characters and Id essentially be downgrading them in terms of stats compared to the exotics I have equipped. There are people out there alot richer than I am, aka TP players, who could afford alot of this stuff, I could have done it via PvE.
EDIT: Oh and I didnt start this game until a couple of weeks after release and had no beta testing “inside information”.
Im surprised people are having a problem with this. Ive been there half a dozen times whilst I was in HoD and it was open or in the process of being opened each time I arrived. And this is HoD, a server that is struggling with numbers in WvW right now. Maybe they still have alot of PvE going on.
I want a full set up of legendary weapons and exotic or ascended armor to drop when Im level 1 and kill my first enemy, including insects.
I don’t feel like magic find makes much difference. I have warrior with full magic find with the highest magic find gear/armor/jewel slot possible (I cant remember how much it comes to, but the gear is somewhere around 150%). Along with that I have a few hundred omnomberry bars giving me an extra 30% magic find and a constantly supply of magic find boosters giving me an extra 50% magic find (I bought a tonne of them in bulk to see the difference). So I have well over 200% magic find and I see no difference between that and my 5 other level 80 characters in terms of drop rate. Magic find, like alot of people claim, is a very very shady stat. In fact, im starting to think magic find makes loot worse, because you reduce your stats it takes a little longer to kill each enemy due to reducing stats elsewhere.
I really don’t know how anyone could have this experience. I play during Oceanic peak times, which most know is the least populated timezone for the majority of games and yet I run into hundreds upon hundreds of players every night. Well over a thousand if I play WvW.
I play tankromancer. Best survivability in the game. Over 34k base health, over 46k health in Plague form and life force as a get out of jail free card or dive into the zerg for lols card, which is almost always full. I can remove any condition on me instantly and send them to my enemy, except for knock down where I have to pop spectral. I can revive 3 allies instantly. My staff skill allows me to constantly have regeneration. I can slow, cripple and fear every 10 seconds or so. Damage on single targets is less than other classes, but I find does significantly more on AoE targets like zergs in WvW whilst also being able to control the zergs movement.
Truth is I wouldn’t go asuran on a new character. I started with an Asuran Guardian. My feel is that Human, Char and Norn got good treatment with content, area and quest wise, whilst Asurans and Syvari did not. I went Sylvari on my Ele and found myself jumping to Divinitys, Hoelbrak and Black Citadel to do more enjoyable content in early and mid levels.
Just compare a few major events like dragons. Human get Teq, Norn get Claw of Jormag and Char get the shaterer. Asuran and Sylvari get none.