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ashen, just admit it, you hate AB for no good reason, you just want it to go away even though no one is forcing you to do it and you never even have to go to Aurin Basic the map if you don’t want to. I don’t know why you want to micromanage and judge how other people play the game but by all means keep on harping on it.
for an AB map to succeed you need at the minimum four lanes to work in cooperation with each other, you need to explain mechanics to new players, you have differentiation of tasks (armours/ground, different people/different times dealing with mobs) and it depends on map population and skill how it will go. And then you have the logistics of managing a multimap squad with volunteer commanders, lieuts, and sometimes anchors. There is a time gate, you have to finish your tasks and loot in half and hour, which can be a challenge and also a comfortable slice of time to game and then get on with their real life for a lot of people. A well executed run brings me great satisfaction, and I know quite a few people who help hosts these and not loot themselves but try and jump around to help all maps succeed.
SW is… event farm either way and then… just… running… around… in circles….for hours? I’m sorry, even if it’s the most lucrative thing ever I’m not touching it with a ten foot pole.
That does not indicate that it needs to be fixed. Ultimately, that is up to ANet. But if you’d like to know why it should be fixed, forget about “inflation” and just answer this question: Is it generally good design to provide vastly more loot for one event than other, similar events? If you know the answer (and you do!) , then you know why this doesn’t work in the long run and why AB multi should be (and likely will be) fixed at some point.
You seem to have some kind of tunnel vision about AB. “vastly more loot” =/= AB must be fixed. What I know is, other events are too UNrewarding, which is a problem people have been talking about since HoT came out and Anet themselves tried to fix. So, the answer is not that “AB multi should be fixed,” it’s that rewards should be balanced across the board or at least diversified enough for different types of activities that there are incentives to do different things.
“In the long run.” AB multiloot has not been detrimental to the economy at all. Ecto has stabilized for a while at ~33-35 s, which was the price before rumours of leg armour drove it up to~60s. The elder wood price drop coincided with the release of BF, and has little to do with AB. Prices of other mats have also remained stable. You can imagine without AB, leather prices would most likely have skyrocketed by now. Lower prices for crafting is much better to retain new players, I hope I don’t have to explain that to you.
AB multiloot is friendly to people without a ton of playtime, is not boring like SW, and requires cooperation and coordination among a large number of players. That’s why it’s so popular and why Anet haven’t and won’t nerf it until they want to hard pull population to where they want us to go.
I’m just here to marvel at the outstanding individuals who still manage to convince themselves that AB multi is an “exploit” that needs to be fixed because they are either too “intelligent” to do it without being kicked from squads, jelly champ/SW farmers, or overconcerned people who don’t know what inflation means though they use that word all the time.
please. so much qq-ing over other people earning money and having fun. you can do it too if you’re smart enough to understand how multimap squads work. I’ve been in dozens of different pug squads and guild squads now and I haven’t seen any toxic behavior. Mostly you get kicked only if you’re leeching off other people (ie afk) or being selfish and making other people have trouble switching map (camping lobby). On the contrary, I’ve seen a lot of cooperative behavior, from volunteer lieuts moving people to volunteer anchors that forgo their chance to loot so that others can move maps easily.
If you’re still having trouble with pug squads, organize one in your guild. Or join a farming guild. Or actually learn how most pug squads work and you’ll never be kicked again. How difficult is it? Drag your icon to lobby when you’re going to switch, drag your icon to the map group you switched to after arriving. That’s it. But then I don’t know what to expect from individuals who accuse others of causing inflation without understanding what inflation is, or even, you know, type legibly.
can anyone against it even explain what exactly is the problem with it? some of you say keep saying “ruining the economy,” “inflation,” etc but you keep saying those words doesn’t equal you know what they mean.
ab farming doesn’t generate gold, only materials (generally mats and ecto). to make gold off it you need to use the tp, which taxes the seller. the effects:
1. more supply of mats and ecto, which keeps their price from skyrocking.
2. gold sink from the tp taxes.
some of you keeping complaining about inflation. AB farming is one of the big factors keeping inflation from rising off the charts.
and to people who think they need boobplates to feel feminine, what? Charr and asura are not human, they would presumably have different parts of the body they culturally consider attractive to highlight. If you want boobs so much you have three other races to choose from.
Yes.
It’s completely incongruous to what we know of charr and asura culture, not to mention anatomy. It just reflects that you view human female as default, and put in little effort to make armour (Legendary! armour) that suit other races in the world you’re building.
And what’s with the female skimpy armour again? Compare it with the male versions, it covers 50% less skin. I wish Anet wouldn’t be so tone deaf about this.
So I encounter this bug today. It’s been at least 4 months since last reported. Anet, are you even paying attention?
thanks for the tip, I started doing that around the time I died the 2rd time. I just feel that someone above on this thread is right, it’s all about the kittening camera angle and how lucky you are when clicking like crazy.
but you know what. I managed to make it through after like 2hrs. the quest bugged out on me after I threw the egg into the golden light. the loadscene won’t load, and then froze my computer. I kittening log in after restarting. guess what, I’ll have to restart again. I’m so fed up. the entire HOT map cluster is filled with fed up. I am going to take a kittening break from this game.
I just can’t do it. my elementalist just dies in two hits from those kittening tendrils, because they not only aoe you in the 1 second you need to kittening see when the kitten ruka is going, they also fling you around until you can’t see any kitten. by the time you reorient yourself, goodbye try again.
guess what, i just found out they can also shoot you from the air. what do I even bother?>
all my gear breaks again and again. I don’t know what anet is trying to do when designing these kittening missions. the only things I want to do after trying so many times so kittening many times is not to play this kittening game ever again.