[Legendary Equipment and Templates - [Merged]]

On 3/20/2020 at 7:30 PM, Fire Attunement.9835 said:

 

Here are our goals for the Legendary Armory feature:

• Make it feel more valuable to earn and use legendary equipment, while also making it easier to use legendary items with the Equipment Template feature.

I've never realized duplications equal value increase... Does it work on dollar bills too? Thanks for the insight! 🙂

[What do you buy with Black Lion Statuettes?]

The by far most (and perhaps only) useful thing are the unbreakable gathering tools. They save you 1000 gems each, whereas home nodes are at best 400 gems each, despite more than double the statuette price.

If skins and consumable primers was the only option, then yea, I'd happily hoard statuettes as well :tongue:

[How do you spot a bot?]

@"Aesir.3192" said:

Keeps spamming 111111, hour after hour. I cloned his setup, and from the game's UI it's by no means possible to have 360º instant autotargeting like that.New bot in Istan this morning, seemingly proving it's either some type of scourge bot build, or a macro.

There are many people jealous of Istan farmers, so I thought this one + prev vid were actual players there to waste profit. Then I lured the vet crescent to launch him off the cliff, and well...

I very rarely report people, but in this case it was just too obvious haha.

Edit: Bot left after a little hint, but is now back again. Was killed for 5+ minutes until someone came to rescue, followed by instant movement and skill spamming. Also noticed he can't even see in 360 radius, so he rather attacks nothing in front than mobs behind.

[Tequatl Hoard Drops?]

@Jeknar.6184 said:I've killed Tequatl thousand of times, I've only dropped ONE hoard.

Same here, and I've done it almost daily (later years even on multiple accounts). 2016 or 2017 dropped my only Hoard. This alt never got anything at all.

I even hope they keep it this way, in honor of many veterans' indefatigable effort.

[Question about deleting a character]

Hello,

What's happening to the account's total playtime when a character is deleted? Since it says "Across all characters" and not "Across the account", do you lose playtime as well?

[Downstate - To Change or Not To Change...yeah that's the question]

@ledernierrempart.6871 said:■ give a massive bonus to revive when the downed is out of combat. (so that rangers would only get a better deal with pet regen when in combat.)I find it strange that WvW revivals don't award WXP. I mean, you get WXP for repairing a wall, or even failing to defend a sentry.

[Downstate - To Change or Not To Change...yeah that's the question]

@TheGrimm.5624 said:Yes, its is another dreaded poll, queue music. Dun dun DUNNNN!

So to keep it simple, let's take a look at where people are today but keep it kind of broad since there are a lot of options on one side and not much on the other. Should downstate be kept as is with no changes. Or changed in some fashion. Forums are a small percentage of players but since references are made to older polls and a number of people didn't want to distract from Alliances but it seems clear it won't anyway so...where are people at with their thoughts? Appreciate your time and opinion. Good gaming!My problem has never been enemies getting into downstate, but myself. /gg is great, but implement that into the entire game so we won't have to tab out when it's pointless to keep fighting.

[A Leveling Guide: Early Builds and Tips]

Gosh. Play what you like, and if you don't, change it. I never even heard of "builds" until GW2.

[How do you spot a bot?]

@"Omnicron.2467" said:I have been seeing a lot of threads on people botting and farming pvp with accounts, just wondering how you spot them? I often have pvp matches where I feel I am playing with bots because there is no communication at all, even at the start you ask about close and there is no reply an you have 2 people going close and you just facepalm. But that could just be bad playing. So how can I tell if there is no player there?

Keeps spamming 111111, hour after hour. I cloned his setup, and from the game's UI it's by no means possible to have 360º instant autotargeting like that.

@Multicolorhipster.9751 said:I think they're a little less sophisticated, less common, and way more obvious than people would have you believe. The only bots(or wintrader perhaps) that i've ever seen have been recently, but they will autorun into a corner of the map and endlessly spam their heal skill or the like. Obvious bot behavior. I've never seen one actively pursue enemy players or even react to being attacked.

The lack of communication I think is a common theme throughout ranked in general, and it's just as likely they're intentionally throwing rather than being bad outright or botting; which, don't get me wrong, shouldn't be a thing either.

Lawl! :smiley: Had a suspected guard bot attacking me in PvP with only block and heals. Big moment when another one joined the next match on skyhammer. At around 200pts, they caught up for a healrace, with the rest of us spectating... :joy: