GutterRat.1269

I hope I am posting this in the right subforum. It is unrealistic to ask that a developer respond to every suggestion thread on the forums. However, not getting a response fosters the feeling that no one from Anet is reading them. One of the biggest complaints in the WvW subforum is that no one reads the suggestions or feedback. Would it be possible to implement a reaction button that devs could use to add a small red sticker onto a post when they’ve read it and made note of it? This way they would not need to take the time to write a response, which is more time-consuming, but the community could clearly tell that the post was read by a developer. It is easy enough to click a button next to a post, right? Of course the downside would be that if developers did not read the forum, this would quickly become apparent as well. But that should not be an issue, because they do read the posts. Right?

Hey maybe Jazz can compile it all together and send it to CMC and then he will get back to us.

After taking weeks off to play games that are enjoyable and actually actively developed, I log on (Thursday) and go on our home border. What's the very first thing I encounter? 3 guys from AG [Goku] exploiting repeatedly over the T3 Rampart outer wall to cata inner. Die, run back, jump over wall, thf portal the other two in, build cata, repeat. Reporting does kitten all and they know it so why bother exhibiting the slightest sportmanship, amirite? I don't give a flying kitten about rewards, queue bugs blah blah, none of it matters when you can just jump over walls lol Fix this kitten you kittening morons, I'm tired of this

Could be even more fun than their annual event of announcing how they'll start working on it again.

The problem is they tend to do no QA at all and kitten up something when slapping the event together, and because it "only" lasts a week they don't bother hot-fixing it. In two words: Golem Week. The no-rally events are okay, although I don't enjoy them that much since I am neither a Thief or a Ranger.

While it would be nice to play without permastealth being in the game, the only issue is the portal. If nerfs to stealth would hurt core thief then just remove the portal. It never had it in the first place and seemed to do fine without it. If you still continue to have issues after portal is gone then it's a l2p issue regarding proper sweeping.

I'm curious as to whether there is a difference in the beta roaming experience between EU and NA due to language barrier issues, particularly where an alliance consists of a lot of German and French players. Any insight into this? Because I could see how on NA where everyone more or less understands English it'd be easier to get help when you ask for it, as opposed to EU alliances where German and French players gibber on in their own respective languages and ignore calls made in English.

First, there's no point posting here if your aim is to attract the attention of the developers. They don't read or post here. Second, the mentality of this forum is such that if you want people to agree with you, you have to state your argument contrary to what you want. This is because clowns like Dawdler who have no dog in the fight will disagree simply because you are asking for something. Ask for no link and they will claim you should have to have one just like everyone else. It's really that brainless around here.

Is it not entirely feasible that the developers' brains are wired to take pleasure out of seeing this type of activity take place?

Thealpp and Avcii D have been roaming on Gandara for years now. The owner sells gold on Discord. Those bots win more duels than they lose, which is entertaining to watch. Also, unlike human players, they never kitten out from an outnumbered fight, leaving you to die alone. Hooray for these Anet-sanctioned bots!

In the long run a personal siege cap will hurt you more than it will help. Siege expiration timers could be looked at, however. I see no reason why a ram only lives for 20 minutes while a catapult lives for 60.

Virtuoso is fine. Since Mesmer is the only class I play, it saves me the cost of the expansion. Plus, I can't wait to farm them with my eyes closed.

Nothing will be done. The game mode isn't under active development, it's been sundowning for years. OTOH if some clown is already dead 40 seconds in then Netflix is probably time better spent.

Why haven't there been dedicated balance teams all this time? So now that you want people who don't care about your PvE content and LW junk to fork out cash for EoD, suddenly your amnesia lifts and you realise your game consists of more than one mode? What have you been doing all these years?

There is no development team working on the SPVP game mode. All resources are focused on churning out quality content for the next pve powerpack, plus maybe one dude working on the "cornerstone mode" which produced a beta test that was an utter failure. You can pretty much forget SPVP exists at least until EoD launches.

No.

The mounts haven't done roaming any favours, I'll say that.

These are all welcome changes. Finally those scouts and defenders will stop raking in unwarranted rewards; they'll have to join the k-train with the rest of us if they ever want to get their shinies.

It's time to release Celestial infusions. +1 or +2 to every single stat. Naturally time-gated with a big fat grind and gold investment, which is available only to those who buy EoD.

I wonder at what point it was that, in parlance, casual came to equal lazy, unengaged, and unintelligent. This spec might not appeal to all the former, but the latter ought to lap it up.

My friend and I roam together in WvW as a party of two, she a power Necro and myself a Mesmer main. We mostly defend home and try to cap objectives. We don't join zergs or follow tags. When we meet resistance in towers etc my friend is always focused and, while she survives longer than I could hope for, it's become clear that as a Mesmer I just don't have the damage anymore to help dispatch opponents quickly enough. She runs a power Core and I mostly run Power Mirage. One would think that if she is drawing all the fire, I could blow my wad on those enemies freely and mow them down, but the damage simply isn't there. Condi isn't significantly better. I've tried to gear more supportively but then I lose damage potential even more and the support I provide isn't what it used to be. I am asking roaming Necros here which classes you find complement you best when it comes to small-scale fights and 2-person roaming. What class would make the best partner, capable of both damage and the kind of support a Necro could use? I honestly don't have a good understanding of your class and so I don't know if there are things you benefit from more than others. I found an old Reddit thread from 4 years ago which focused on PvE, but in that thread it was not recommended to take a Warrior, for example...but I'm not sure why. I have asked my Necro friend but she knows I have 14k hours on Mesmer and no other classes levelled up, and probably feels like I should just play that which I love. Luckily I don't love it much these days so here I am, open to ideas.

Whines about chaos mesmer being brainless, suggests playing necro... yea ok.

Anet doesn't ban bots, so keep rockin'.

Chaos/Inspi/Mirage. Staff, scep/to, Trailblazer. Don't shatter, just AA and doze off. Gratz on acquiring skill, and special thanks to Anet for buffing aids.

Gandara sends loving regards to the new benevolent overlord of pikenworld. Long may he/she/it reign.