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There's nothing to "offset" when you're still easly using all that "non casual" loot. Also as far as I remember, soon after release you went right for leggy materials while trying to work out limits and more optimal paths for gathering them (and I remember because I used them too, although not necessarily to the caps, thank you). I think even now you're overestimating/overselling your "casualness" for the "past 1-2 years". Again, if you feel casual and think "buying out 85% of what you needed [and grinding out to the cap some of the other materials]" is what fits "how are the casual players doing with armor" question, that's great 😉 Meanwhile, I remain convinced it doesn't. Not that it's some huge deal, I didn't intend this to be anything more than a throwaway line, but eh. Without change, I am casually waiting for t2 to be revealed before I craft anything.

Ok, I think the extensive period of the un-casual gameplay completely misses the point of the question about "how casual players are doing with the new armor". Not sure if you don't understand that or what this is supposed to be, but hey, whatever 😉

Nah, players can and do play differently at different time periods, at no point I questioned that. Although -again- claiming that you're a casual player because you just did your grind for years and now you're able to use up the pile of that gold seems to be missing the point of the question "how are casual players doing", oof 😅

"Maybe I did grind everything there was to grind for the past 10 years, but since I don't need to grind anymore [because I'm using whatever I did grind on the way here], I'm a casual player" is not my -still rather loose- definition of a casual player, but I'm not ready to faint on this hill, so if you consider yourself a casual player... so be it! 😉

Which is why I didn't say "if you have gold/armor/whatever, you're not casual", but instead that he's not really a casual player 😉 Anyways, I'm casually not "clicking" any part of the armor until they show t2.

...which still doesn't mean you're a casual player 😄

You sure it was the servers and not something on your side?

But he was asking the casual players 😄

Terrible take. Hubs make sense and are fine. If you dislike instanced content, it doesn't mean "there should be less of it", you're free to simply skip it. Meanwhile, we need more of it.

You need to talk to the happy cloud (in w1 or w2 hub) in order to participate in easy mode, where the rainbow bridges are available. They're not available in normal mode.

What exactly did you google? What results did you get? What results did you expect? I don't get it. You started the game, you don't know about endgame and that's.. a giant problem? Explain.

"sacrifice" as in no longer min-maxing by following exact builds/rotations from snowcrows benchmarks? Sure, as I already reminded you in the preivous post, that's exactly the point. You're saying you understand it wasn't about min-maxing, but now you're back to claiming what I'm saying is somehow wrong because it "requires sacrifice"? What sacrifice is it outside of not min-maxing anymore? Yes, you need to swap some skills which will result in playing a bit differently, but pretty sure playing a bit differently was part of the desired solution to this complaint, wasn't it? I don't get what you're trying to argument here, where you apparently keep complaining about not being as efficient as snowcrows builds/benchmarks, but at the same time you claim you understand it's not about min-maxing and it's fine to not min-max. (and at no point was I talking about shortbow) Isn't what you just said simply reiterating what I already said here? Yes, the qdps wouldn't be the "meta/benchmark" build. Yes, it could deal less damage than "meta/benchmark" builds (duh). No, that's not the reason you're "not meeting the dps requirement for the encounter". From what I understand, what you're trying to use as an argument here is "there might exist a group that dislikes your dps, so that build is not viable/bad/not enough". If that's what you consider as an argument for any build then any build/class/player below 95% (made up number, might be 99% for some, how could we know) of the overal game's dps capabilities should be deemed as unfit to be played with. Personally I find this line of argumentation to be a complete nonsense. Either you want to min max with your group or you don't. If you do, you basically do whatever's needed to min max. If you don't (and we already established that's not about min-maxing), this is simply a bad argument because we're not talking about some leeching/healer level numbers.

Third choice: you're wrong and your complaints are incoherent. More on that right under: ...bauble collector are one time achievements, meanwhile you're complaining about having to run maps daily "along with the achievements". It doesn't make sense, hence my question. You can pick-and-choose your dailies to not require you to keep traversing the whole zones. If you want to do every daily for basically no reason, just so you then have something to complain about then you're willingfully creating your own problems. Hence the rest of my post where that's exactly what's being pointed out to you: You need to? Why? You just wanted "something to do", so run your zone, 2, 4 or all of them if you have enough time and that's it. Why aren't you responding to the questions you're quoting, but instead just repeat/pretend you "need to do everything every single day despite not having time to play"?

If you expected them to release less maps (because that's what they said they're doing), but increase their size and content to cover the previous higher number of maps then that's your baseless wishful thinking you chose to believe yourself. Those "later soto specific reveals" that were made way before the release? And that's bad because what, you had to pre-order the moment the pre-order option became available? I really don't get the line of argumenting you're aiming at with what you just said.

Nope, they were pretty upfront about it. We knew what we were getting and in how many pieces it will be cut into.

Yup. I always did it with dodgejumping, but if someone's allergic to that for whatever reason, this is how it can be done. Using action cam should make it easier to jump back on the first small rock and then continue forward without turning the camera around.

Is there a Rottweiler in the game other than the mini one (maybe spawned during april fools?) ? Mini duckling?

Good point on including leveling crafting, I wasn't taking that into consideration. The whole thing is still easly covered by the limited 6aa gold +MC from WV. Because of that, I really don't see that as something that's prohibitive or hard to get.

In that case, I misunderstood what you said there, sorry. The reason I misunderstood it though is because the insignia doesn't really cost that much? Berserker insignia costs 5,2g, minstrel 2,5g more than that. I don't see how this disqualifies it from stat swapping "into it" through mystic forge? (crafting prices in both cases)

Oh! In that case I'm glad you don't need to take vacation days (again, LI builds are a thing) to still play plenty of the builds. As far as I understand, it's not "too", if I didn't say "good luck" in the first place? So, thanks and good luck to you too! 😄

Great, as mentioned in the previous post, let me know if you need help with something.

No, you said that you "liked wb before you got to awb, but now you have to learn a new class". If that's not what you meant then great, but you still wrote what you did and that's what I commented on. Yes, you already said that you don't have time and don't feel like learning a class or build anyways, but that's not a reason to change any class or build to your liking and repeating again that "you don't have time or motivation" doesn't change anything about that. Even moreso when you try claiming you need to take vacation days to learn new classes/playstyles, as if LI builds never existed. Maybe you have a fairly limited understanding of what you're talking about (was that what you had in mind when you said you're sorry for jumping on qscrapper bandwagon in this thread?), but in that case you can always ask for help and suggestions of easy builds. For some reason you started repeating that we can disagree (or agree to disagree) -as if that's something I question here- while you're not adding anything new to the discussion "because you can't explain it" or you have "no opinion or understanding of it otherwise". If you're unable to respond to what you're quoting, there's no reason to quote it and repeat the same thing I already questioned. Wonder what your goal with doing that here is?

Great, then leave it for people who enjoy playing it and play what you enjoy instead, because it's not clunky nor problematic as already explained. Sure, so you enjoyed dps wb, but since awb is also a thing, it somehow rendered playing wb not viable or sth, so now you have to learn a new class. That just doesn't make any sense. Even moreso when you already have a support option available in qfb. You "not having time or motivation to learn another class/build/role, but still wanting it" isn't an issue to solve by changing how the class/build plays. For context, neither am I -just pointing out (as mentioned many times by now) that you already have builds with "those design principles you favor in general". You "not feeling like going for them" isn't a reason to turn this build/class into what something else already does.

I don't find complaining about boon ball while complaining about not being able to stick to the center of the boonball intuitive or logical either. Movement skills can be problematic depending on how they're made, but alacbenders skills -or their use cases- are not problematic nor clunky. It's great that you dislike something, it's even better that, as already mentioned many times (and avoided by you each of those times), you already have plenty of choices to fit what you're looking for. You don't need to keep playing what you dislike just to complain that it needs to be changed into "what that other class/build does too". Just play "that other class/build". It's that simple indeed.

Exactly -and somehow at the same time you're complaining about having to move around a little instead of spamming static rotation in the middle of that ball. Standing in the boon ball 24/7? Static and uninteresting! (agreed btw) Having to be a bit more active? Clunky! Unnecessary! Complicated "and what if you miss?"! (disagreed btw)