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I've redesigned the UI & the official website

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well, this looks a lot more like the (f2p-) standard we’re used to. i’ve said it again and again, but whoever designed the gw2-ui as well as the person who designed the forum should be fired and never get a job again. give them a hobosack, send them to a mine or so and hire the op to redesign all your stuff that looks like straight from 1995.

Challenge Mote - No Refuge

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hello,
i wanted to do the challenge achievement and noticed that there is no challenge mote there. i watched some videos on youtube and if seems it should be at those stones next to marjory but it’s not there every time i open the instance. i finished the other achievements and also the instance, so that can’t be it. did the location of the mote change? am i missing something?

"The any News about DirectX 11 Thread" - 2015

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What EULAs really say:
You don’t own anything. In fact, we now have the rights to your shoes. If you click “I agree” you couldn’t sue us even if we took your first born. You DO have the right to your money back if our software doesn’t work, but since you’re using a computer (third party something or other) to run it you invalidate that right. We can take down the servers to our products (and your medical records) whenever we want.

it must suck living in a country with laws like that.

btt: i highly doubt there will be any update on the graphics. be it dx10, 11, 12 or 500. if it’s too much effort to fix problems that have been in game since launch i guess it’s way too much effort to update the graphics.

unranked match, what did I do to deserve this

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don’t play unranked. apart from the horrormaps unranked is more a “i hope my team will carry me for daily”x5-place.

you're the writer: Trial for Caithe?

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Caithe?
ALL of mordremoths minions or potential minions are traitors and a grave danger to the nations of tyria and must be cleansed with fire. #burndownthegrove

Vorpp did nothing wrong

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i don’t think there’s a problem in experimenting on plants whatsoever. them being dragon minions or not. next thing you’ll tell me i shall stop eating meat because humans/asura/norn have feelings and stuff.

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Spvp condi warrior still a thing?

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i tend to use this build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?fJAQNBMhNakpjqQLDxxD6QEkEIIbl5UAlf7mc2RA-TpRAABA8AAo4EAE9hAosyABcEA6Z/BA

it’s some sort of mix between s/s-b-condi and the shoutwar. i like the permavigor and the dual stab for finishing or fighting cc as well as the mobility and condiremove all in one. i do miss a block and additional heals this way, though.

GW2 loot system

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so why is there this fractal level range when fractal lv10 give you almost same reward as lv49 (there is some bonus chance drop to ascended but its small) this is why people hate this why i go play hard dungeon when super easy other dungeon is quicker and give me better reward?

Higher fractals do have exclusive rewards.

a tonic you can’t even sell and perhaps infused rings (yay, more rings), amazing.

What made you buy gw2?

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gw1
/15chars/….
not what you want to hear but still a valid reason.

Mini Llama

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soon™
/15chars/

CGI/Cutscenes

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There’s an NPC in Camp Resolve that lets you rewatch the final cinematics if you’ve completed the episode. He’s standing near the entrance.

Oh thats cool. is that for all episodes?

The replay NPC is just for this episode, but if you (and others) have feedback on replaying other cinematics we’d like to hear it (in a separate thread).

if it would be possible to make this npc into a general “replay cutscene X from ls chapter Y”-npc, everyone (or at least anyone enjoying lore/cutscenes) would be delighted, i guess.

On the subject of re-watching cut-scenes I’d like to see the Scrying pool make a return to the HoM especially since wardrobe and mini updates mean the only people who have a reason to go there now are rangers and that’s only a one time trip.

^this, totally this

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Damage Meters??

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WE WANT STEADY WEAPONS BACK!

we don’t want, we need.

Taking beast at beginning in Ranked

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i can’t because you don’t.
anyone wasting time killing the beast instead of trying to get mid is just plain stupid. if you are sure you can take mid with 3 people you might delegate one person (and not a single more) to kill it (however, you always risk it being stolen if there’s f.e. a thief in the other team).
the beast is rather used to get some additional points after you wiped the enemy or are sure to hold those points you have. i’d never even consider going for the beast if there’s even one enemy on a point i want to have or keep.

Which works better?

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Charr
/15chars..

Matchmaking doesn't seem improved

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Question to Justin:
You talked about hard filters before. They seem like the ultimate (as you said nuclear) option but i wonder if the solution to the problem couldn’t be a optional nuclear solution. A solution that might partially satisfy people wanting better matchups as well those who don’t want to want. since i don’t know how matchmaking is implemented into the system so this might not be an option but wouldn’t it be possible to fork the matchmaking algorithm? standard set to hard filter as in exclude other team formats (premade, solo/duo) but with a check box to lift that filter in order to shorten que times.

Skyhammer never gets 5 or more votes

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I have yet to play Skyhammer since the patch.

i envy you. after a long time of playing exclusively teamq to avoid those maps i encounter them quite frequently recently. either some troll votes for it and since (afaik; also really doesn’t feel like it) the votes are not weighted it get’s a 33%-50% chance of popping or you even encounter a premade semi-built for exactly those maps (saw a guild run 3 engi – warrior – thief in order to farm yard in first place, skyham in second and watch in third; i also met some dudes that farm yard with nearly 100% winrate because they’re built for it; it seems to pop often enough for it to be worth it). after making a big circle around soloq in order to not have to play those maps i’m kinda kittened off i have to put up with it now.
i heard/read somewhere that yard, ham and watch will be removed from ranked rotation on dec 16th, is that right? i might as well stop playing pvp until then at all.

Dishonor = Bullying?

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:D
welcome to the internet. if you want to walk away from bullying on the internet you have to walk away from the internet. just bully back. call his/her mother names or something, be creative.

roflmao and 15chars

+1

No, just no. Developping a thicker skin is one thing but mimicking idiots won’t make you anything else than an idiot yourself. Beside, you want to lessen the propagation of such juvenile displays not expand it. Be creative, yes, but not by making yourself an idiot 2.0.

psychological warfare, my friend. tpvp is srs business.

skyham in ranked

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can we please get rid of this menace in srs pvp?
the yard and watch as well imo.

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Today is the appropriate time to remember ...

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all is vain and lederborsd, never forget.

AMA: Rank 1 solo queue

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ok, here is go:
why do you think anyone cares?

Am I doing it right? (Leveling)

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play pvp, gather tomes of knowledge and scrolls and get your toon to 80 (including unlocking skills) with nothing more but a few clicks. this way you can skip all that open world pve and directly start with farming dungeons and stuff.
second possibility is to join the karmatrain in edge of the mists in order to level up as fast as possible.
at lvl 80 get berserker gear. you always want max dmg in pve anything else doesn’t matter.

I Love SD/PvP Viability Discussion

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after being bored with nades and bombs i play sd occasionally in tpvp. it’s fun and everything but it just can’t compete with a zerker build that can stealth. what you lack in stealth you need to compensate with positioning, reaction and overall skill and it’ll be less and less viable to run sd when your opponents get tougher.

@vince: i actually find mesmers easier to beat than f.e. a necro or thief. since sd bounces i often destroy most clones/illusions before they can do serious damage.

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Crafted agony infusions strangeness??

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i don’t know the exact values of all the infusion levels but usually anything above +10 is considered useless. you already get to 70ar with full ascended gear and one +5 infusion in one infused trinket with only the versatile infusions. the only reason for higher infusions would be people that want to play lvl 50 fractals in exotic armor (for whatever reason) and the amount (or level) of infusions needed (without any kind of asc gear you’d need two +15 or two +13 and two +12) costs more than a whole ascended armor set + weapon including crafting from 0 to 500. i don’t know if those are recent offers but i bet those are from the time before ascended armor or weapons existed and were possibly something people that ran lvl80 fractals may have used.
so they are not a thing you would craft for profit but rather a dead market with dead offers (from inactive people) from 1 year ago.

Question about cooking

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around a billion. no conclusion.

Real gear

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there is, as always, another perspective. i f.e. don’t play wvw because with pve gear the stats are completely over the top. although some more customization in pvp would be nice i would rather not want to see such ridiculous amounts of stat gain in pvp.
i’m quite happy with not being able to build for full dmg and still have massive sustain on top of that. thank god you have to decide between full direct dmg and sustain in spvp (except for celestial, that’s why everyone hates it). the stats given by the pve gear are the reason why people playing wvw are seen as scrubs from a spvp-perspective.
if you can’t be carried by completely op stats just l2p. or stay in wvw.

RIP - Dishonor will catch everyone

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given how kittened up the servers are the already mere pvp population is gonna be halved by dc→dishonor.

do u all want more PvE players in sPvP?

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the first couple of days after reward track release even teamq was close to unplayable at low ranks (around 95%-900; felt a lot like hotjoin: people capping points together, general cluelessness about secondary mechanics, rotations, effectiveness of builds and so on) so i have to go for no. it was fun for a few matches since even semi-noobs like me were able to carry quite a lot but frustration took over quickly.
i don’t care for any kind of reward in pvp at all. if higher rewards bring in a wave of people that i am uncomfortably playing with because they are even (a lot) worse than me, then no thx.
that said i have nothing about people wanting to learn pvp, i even encourage everyone that does but figuring out the absolute basics of pvp doesn’t belong into teamq.

however, the new ranked/unranked system might very well make my whole post obsolete.

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best race for predator ?

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anything except charr/norn.

I thought it looked good on small norn women?

you’re right, i didn’t think of that.

Hobo Sacks: A Terrible Fashion Statement

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Why does it matter if its gemstore?

that’s not the problem. it’s just that i’d rather have the backpack visuals i actually chose through crafting/looting/buying a specific piece than whatever option anet gives me to override hobosack visuals through the gemshop. i would have no problem with a gemshop item that copies the skin of the backpack i have equipped.
it wouldn’t be a fair solution since there would be a single class that has to pay for something other classes have always had but at this point i don’t care anymore. i just want to see the back piece i have spent weeks or months to get like any other class does.

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best race for predator ?

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anything except charr/norn.

Guild Wars Utopia

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afaik parts of utopia were included in eotn. utopia by itself would probably make no sense after war in kryta and winds of change.

1 SoSWT Per Day? WTF? WHY?

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yes, t5 prices would have spiked but those of the ascended mats wouldn’t have. now just check spidy and compare the bids/buys (div/mult by numbers needed, ofc; you can check the numbers bought/sold in this time on spidy) in the average pricerange (prices at the time of the update+reasonable max prices in tp /2) on those asc mats and t5. you will come to the conclusion that the gold drain with asc mats is higher.

another point is that you can farm t5 mats, acs mats you can not.

Suggestion: Improve Item Logistics

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No one any thoughts about this ?

no, because there’s nothing to say against this idea. improves qol and frees up storage space. why weren’t some things integrated into the bank/wallet system in the first place? no idea, looking for logic at anet is like looking for marbles on the moon. you can’t say for sure there are none, but it’s highly improbable.

Hobo Sacks: A Terrible Fashion Statement

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no person ever has spotted which kit the engineer uses through backpack visuals ever.

dont make unprovable statements like this, it doesnt help us. and this one is false as these typically are.

there’s a simple solution for that: ask an as large number of people as you can, if they have ever looked at the hobosack in order to tell which kind of kit the engineer uses. then tell me what you found out.
over two years i have been in several pvp guilds and talked to a lot of people about this and i have yet to met the person that derives the used kit from the hobosack visuals. the only people that actually knew that different hobosacks existed were engineer-players.

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1 SoSWT Per Day? WTF? WHY?

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because if not timegated the prices for those mats on the tp would have been way lower thus shrinking the overall “value” of the armor. another point is that you have to log in every day. another and probably the most important point is that by locking those mats behind a timegate there is way more incentive to buy those mats from the tp, generating a need for gold (which correlates with the price of those mats: higher price → more playtime/gems needed) which by itself again gives the incentive to buy gems and trade them for gold.
why timegate? because profit.

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Help please: Unidentified Fossilized Insect.

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easiest way to get those is the pvp reward track. i got 3 or 4 of those only from playing tpvp.

GW2 Supporter Subscription!

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i’m not so sure the op gets how the funding circulation between customer, anet and ncsoft actually works ….
you already have the possibility to spend money on the game, why would it need subs?

can't find trees to cut down

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pressing a button to cut down trees is way to confusing for new players (seems like gw2 only has new players), so it had to be removed. just level up more and the system will tell you when you are smart enough to press f.

Hobo Sacks: A Terrible Fashion Statement

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replacing the hobosacks with a manpurse is somehow obsolete. no person ever has spotted which kit the engineer uses through backpack visuals ever. changing it to something barely visible doesn’t make any sense at all and i hope nobody will waste any amount of time on designing/coding that.
best solution is the easiest solution: just get rid of it completely (or give us an option to toggle it. coding a function that enables/disables a specific 3d model should be done in less than two hours, hell just copy+modify the function from disabling head/shoulder/hand armor parts. implementing it into the architecture will take longer but it’s not something you can’t do over night. you’re a company, just pay some nerd to pull an all-nighter) and replace hobosacks with icons like the ele has for attunements. this way you just need to remove something and the art team just has to make some 0.5 cm icons instead of completely new 3d models. on top of it being not really much work the whole engineer community will cry tears of joy.
i really wonder how you guys at anet get things done, making full scale projects out of something that’s barely worth a days work for 2-3 people. fantasizing about revolutionary ideas in meetings doesn’t actually get it done.
i still have massive doubts this will ever be resolved and speaking from 2 years of experience with this game (and reading about the ideas the staff has in gailes post) if it will be ever done, it will be done in the most intricate and complicated way, completely missing the point and what the community actually wants.
we want cookies that taste like chocolate. please don’t give us a tower high iced ubercake that tastes like pork …. again. nobody will thank you for your gigantic effort if it’s only a simple solution we want. make your satchels, but don’t expect anyone to be grateful. two seconds after release people will be upset that it clips with probably everything.

do not make things overly complicated, over the top is still a miss.
just my 2 cents

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Lightning Rod: Not enough CC to work in pvp

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is this trait of any use in spvp? i tried several setups but always failed due to stability.

Hobo Sacks: A Terrible Fashion Statement

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…does somebody else see the dev response or did i finally board the train to crazytown?…

if you remember a year back you’ll come to the conclusion that those posts not always carry consequences.

3D Printing Characters?

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there are diverse tools for that (texmod was popular in gw1, doesn’t work on gw2, though.). with most tools you’ll only capture the textures which you would have to remodel in 3d by hand in order to print it. it’s for sure possible. not so sure about it being allowed. however, who is gonna find out/do anything about it?

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f2p to become popular PvP game

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and have all those kittened up broke kittens from all over the world playing? no thanks. every f2p pvp community is made up of angry 10 year old who can’t afford to buy games. i’d would love to keep those people away from gw2.

New Gem conversion| My analysis on it.

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Wow zaced, you really are angry oO.

how am i angry? i just gave a n explanation why anet can’t free itself from ncsoft. yes, there are contracts but a subsidiary is neither gated by time nor money. and i bet the amount needed to buy anet from ncsoft is more than the companies worth atm (that might change if gw2 or any future project of anet goes down the gutter). since anet gets it’s money from ncsoft i doubt they have the money to buy themselves free. also i doubt they even would want to. not having to look for investors has it’s benefits.

anet is not a company on it’s own, it’s a subsidiary of ncsoft which means ncsoft owns more than 50% of anets stock, so anet doesn’t even have the power to decide anything like being bought or buying themselves. that is decided by a conglomerate of 51% or more stock owners which atm is ncsoft. anet is not a nascar racer and the more of your post i read the less i think you actually know either the details of this economical arrangement or how this thing works as a whole. yes, ncsoft is also anets publisher but it’s also anets owner. they bought anet in 2002.

what you think or not doesn’t matter. gaming is a business and investors will always look for the highest gain. that’s not a critique that’s a fact. also what makes this game worthwhile doesn’t matter for a purely economical analysis.

and yes, they are taking it back. this wasn’t the first milking system introduced and also not the first taken back. since they run on a “new” business model they have to test things like this. seems like the risk of losing players is too high for the calculated gain. at least atm. since it will take some time to reverse it, they’ll still earn on it (although only temporarily now) while cutting off the kittenstorm with the promise to reverse it. now they know their customers react allergic to this specific change (at least atm, boiling frog and such) and have temporarily made some shinies on the way. win-win.

you’re naive if you think such decisions aren’t calculated thoroughly and made without weighing customer satisfaction (= willingness to spend money) against revenue from milking systems. voluntary gain vs. forced gain is always a factor in such a decision.

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question regarding forum software

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why not just use php bb or something that actually works / is convenient to use?
while it’s honorable to have a forum made by yourself the manual formatting options are way beyond horrible. not even to mention the search engine and stuff like that.

is there actually any reason for using your own software (apart from pride and stubbornness) and not something that has worked for years and has all the features this forum lacks? i bet everyone knows at least a bunch of people not using the forum due to those inconveniences.

The Gem Conversion Rate, What Just Happened?

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greed happened. nothing unexpected.
raise minimum border for gem acquirement → higher gem flow → higher gem price → more incentive to convert gems to gold → more moneyz for anet/ncsoft

similar minimums may exist when taking loans in order to guarantee a minimal gain (that the bank deems lucrative) for the bank/shark/whatever or buying into investment-fonds, trusts, etc.

“no pennies, dollars or gtfo”

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New Gem conversion| My analysis on it.

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they can’t. they are owned by ncsoft. does your toaster have the possibility to free itself from you?
all is vain, hope is lost. that you have any just shows your detachment from reality. for us this game is a way to kill time, for anets employees it’s their income and for ncsoft it’s a way to milk us monetarily. that won’t change, this is how business works. the more players leave due to understanding they are being milked without getting much in return / wandering off to games where they are being milked less or get more content for being milked the more anet will be forced by ncsoft to implement systems to milk the remaining players even more in order to keep up with the revenue until it reaches a breakpoint and gw2 stops being lucrative and the investments from ncsoft will be moved to another lucrative project. this will either be another game by anet or anet will have to release more and more employees in order to keep running.

there is one very important change from “back in the days” gamers need to understand. 15-20 years ago games might have been produced to offer entertainment because they were a niche-product in society. nowadays they are like any other mainstream product: designed to produce maximum revenue with minimal investment.
go for it or leave it be. pleading to a subsidiary 100% dependent on their publisher/investor won’t change a thing. anet is powerless, ncsoft doesn’t care since they have more in their portfolio than gw2. that’s how the economic system works. in the mass the customer is lost in the statistic.

gaming mouse needed?

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it’s not needed but makes things a lot easier to handle.
i don’t use one, though.

Where will Gw2 be 1 year from today

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it will be at the same place it is today but with less people and less profit.

What made you decide to play as a Charr?

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cats > all => charr