[Bought the Wrong Obsidian Legendary]

Unless you willfully spent extra money at every step of the crafting process, you should've been using the corresponding crafting station the whole time and had no chance of selecting the wrong piece. It's so unnecessary that Lyhr has these recipes. Making people get to 500 crafting to make a legendary is very reasonable.

[Upcoming expansion = upcoming legendaries?]

Another option for legendary trinkets would be nice since those have very limited options to acquire them currently (particularly rings & accessories since we have 3 backpack options and 2 amulet options) and the floating orb effect doesn't work with a lot of character designs.

[PSA For CM Goers: Stop GGing At MAMA - It Isn't Faster - It Only Slows Down Your Run]

It is completely correct that a GG before Mama is a waste of time, as long as your group has spent a collective 30 minutes practicing their builds. When we get pugs like this -->

39 minutes ago, Vinceman.4572 said:

So, no. You were proven wrong. And even if you don't admit it I hope you are playing on NA and I will never meet you in my group. But even then: I will gg no matter what. If you want to fight as 4 people then without me. Keep going, Meanwhile I'll wait and grab a drink or some chocolate.

in my static, we let them grab their drink while we 4-man the fight (still faster than resetting the whole thing) then kick them because they couldn't read that they were told not to GG and clearly don't know their build well enough to do anything of consequence.

[Ranger Mace Changes (PvE)]

15 hours ago, RainbowTurtle.3542 said:

Nerfing maces was very much so justified. Power Soulbeast and Untamed both had unnecessary and likely unintended DPS increases from taking mace/mace, mostly due to Force of Nature

If maces gave unintended DPS increases to ranger's power DPS builds, how were maces intended? Definitely not to be used as the sole weapon set for a build, that's practically never the case. This feels more like a lack of any math or testing being done.

[Ranger Mace Changes (PvE)]

14 hours ago, RainbowTurtle.3542 said:

Now that maces have been nerfed, there currently is a 3k loss from pre-patch mace setups and a 2k loss from sword/axe for PQU- putting PQU right above Power quickness herald when trying to match it's (passive and easy, VS Untamed's more active rotation) boon output, which I don't think is the best spot for it. For Untamed to take some of it's utility outside of boon output to help compete with herald, it needs to drop Jungle Stalker (lessening your might output, which herald covers really well) or orange tiger/iboga (lessening your damage, which drops you to herald damage levels), and that's not counting replacing a utility skill used for damage for a utility skills with an effect.

Remember the original Untamed nerf after it was allowed to actually be interesting for a while, losing Fervent Force. For that matter, look at one of the most consistently overperforming and easiest to play builds in the game: condi virt. Anet has consistently made the choice that skill =/= power, at least beyond the skill floor of an hour or so of practice. More and more higher skill level builds are getting shelved in favor of lower skill level ones.

[Revisiting fractals agony system]

Between mist attunement and agony impedance account upgrades, you can have up to 45 account-wide AR if you invest enough time in fractals and consider that the number of characters you wish to play warrants getting the last two agony impedance upgrades. Needing 105 AR per character (or 100 if you want to count the 5 from the mistlock, assuming you won't lose it mid-fight) is a very low cost. Dividing the 105 over 18 infusion slots gets us down to needing an average of 5.8 AR in each slot. With 3 +6 infusions and 15 +5's, that costs about 7.6 total gold in thermocatalytic reagents (or 8.08 gold if you buy +5's for both weapon sets).

Now, say you don't even want to put infusions in your weapons so you don't have to pay for them on each set. That brings us to 16 slots needing an average of 6.6 AR in each slot. With 9 +7's and 7 +6's, that costs about 11.73 gold (obviously the worse choice, but worth noting).

This math assumes the person has spent the maximum amount of effort in augmenting their account, but if you want to constantly swap characters in fractals, you should be doing so. Even if you're just starting out and want a couple characters/builds to swap between, these infusions drop constantly and fractals are one of the best gold farms in the game. Costing a bit to prepare a new character isn't a big deal at all.

[Silent Surf CM is too messy - so messy that even good players avoid it]

12 hours ago, Nephalem.8921 said:

Then only cm got nerfed hard. normal mode was never a problem to begin with. 15m hp or something while you have access to a 50% outgoing dmg buff during the fight.

its a bad fight but it isn't bad because its too long. It is still bugged. rewards are fine.

The rewards aren't fine. It's the only fractal CM that doesn't reward an ascended ring or salvage kit for completion. By far the most annoying, compared to the others that are some of the most interesting and dynamic fights in the game, and for all that you get worse rewards than all the other CMs.

[JPs as lege roadblock]

5 minutes ago, Kavan.3958 said:

I thought you could still buy the precursors. Did they remove that pathway?

Gen 2 legendaries have always had account-bound precursors, though after the first 4 it's just a bunch of crafting materials that can be bought. Nevermore, H.O.P.E., Astralaria, and Chuka and Champawat have all always required you to go through their full set of achievements as their only crafting method.

[There's nothing to see in this thread. Move along. Shoo.]

5 hours ago, IAmNotMatthew.1058 said:

If you're 70/80 whatever characters deep in the game you shouldn't need the game to hold your hand and explain things like you'd explain to a 3 year old. 

If you don't have basic reading and understanding skills don't go and complain about the game not telling something, when you can't understand what the game is telling you. Both sources explain how each works, the upgrade component wiki specifically tells you that removing/replacing a non Legendary will destroy it, if you go on assuming how things work despite the clear descriptions it's on you. 

If I had an issue like this I would have left out the number of characters I have, because as you can see it's a sure way to get people to make fun of you considering you spent 12k gold at the least on Character Slots alone and you're here complaining about not knowing how upgrades work.

Absolutely this. If you've been around since launch, you've seen how legendary equipment has evolved, seen the launch of legendary armor (3 varieties, soon to be 4) and runes, and had years to learn how all of it works. Your account is one of the rare situations where legendary gear is not just a convenience but also would save you money because of the sheer absurd number of copies of effectively ascended gear you'd get. At this point it's willful ignorance that's keeping you from knowing how upgrades work, and you can't blame the wiki or Anet for that.

[Untamed questions]

Losing Fervent Force, which used to reduce the cooldown of all of our skills by 4 seconds every time we hit with a CC, took away one of the few remaining highly technical builds in this game. Unfortunately, many people who weren't capable or too lazy to learn turned to automating this detailed build to make up for their shortcomings, earning a build that wasn't outshining other dps builds a nerf.

Hammer is a capable weapon, but has to be paired with another weapon set to compete with other builds. Like most builds in the game: swap to the hammer, do what you can in 10-15 seconds, then swap back to your other set to do the same. Rinse and repeat.

[ANET WTH IS THE RANGER CHEETAH PET?]

Not sure why it was labeled a cheetah, though both being unable to go underwater with it and already having a pet named stalker may have been reasons.

[Expanded Weapon Proficiencies Beta Feedback: Ranger]

The mace skills are looking pretty solid! Recharging themselves will make for quite interesting gameplay when used well. The one thing I was hoping for was a source of group stability, which we didn't get. I think that would be a better effect on the unleashed ambush skill rather than something very similar to staff #4, so heal/support untamed could be competitive with other builds in situations where stability is expected.

[Fractals Instability (Toxic Sickness)]

9 hours ago, Incurve Giidis.7829 said:

turn away from boss every 20s for 5s, anet master designers of anti fun

and why did they even add a desynced visual to the mech going off 😂

You have to turn for a second or less; you get a feel for when the mechanic actually goes off. As for why we have instabilities in the first place, they help to keep fractals interesting when running them day after day. They're an important part of the content.

[Glob of Coagulated Mists Essence not dropping]

What fractal are you farming? It seems to be more likely to drop in t2 fractals, so if you're between 21 and 25 you may be less likely to get it. If you have an excess of vials, you can also use the mystic forge recipe to promote them

[Suggestion to improve Heal Untamed]

On 11/10/2023 at 2:22 PM, Maria Murtor.7253 said:

I'd like to see a bit stability.

I found that to be this spec's greatest weakness when attempting to be the primary healer in fractals/raids. We can put out large amounts of healing consistently and apply plenty of the major boons, but we have 0 options for group stability.

[Why did they remove rune of the trapper effect from WvW?]

20 hours ago, VonSchnitzel.9025 said:

I hardly even saw any trap rangers before the nerf...

That's because they were all stealthed

[What the heck is going on with guild decorations]

Guild decorations are meant to be the product of several people working together, that's why scribing costs run higher than other crafting. Any guild where 30 people will each contribute 4 pieces of leather will make the cost quite insignificant

[Chuka and Champawat bug]

These kinds of bugs are unfortunately common with legendary quests in core maps. Events are pretty reliable at running at least once when the map refreshes, so unless a fix gets in, your best bet is to log in and run it right after a new build launches.

[Any tricks on obtaining (Exotic) Essence of Luck]

Map metas, fractals, and raids give tons of unidentified gear. Salvage all of that (whether you open it first or not) and you'll get tons of luck coming in.

[Raid dailies?]

3 hours ago, Kuya.6495 said:

That's a good point. I had thought it could just be left as is as this creates an incentive for those who already cleared the wing to seek out those who have not to get their dailies done therefore making it valuable to find openers but I can see that pissing off people who don't want to bother to find an opener and just want to get their dailies done asap.

 

Aside from that I'm not sure what change anet could make in the backend to make a raid wing reset for dailies, aside from having the wing automatically reset on daily reset if it's the designated daily for that day.

That would also annoy people, effectively making us lose progress on a partially completed raid wing. It would have to be something that we can use to voluntarily reset a boss, like adding a dialog option to Glenna or the challenge mote (including adding a new mote on bosses that don't have them) to respawn the boss.

[Raid dailies?]

5 hours ago, IAmNotMatthew.1058 said:

Imagine the amount of complaining from people that they have to Raid for dailies and now Anet is catering to the toxic elitists.

It certainly wouldn't be the main wizard's vault dailies, but having motivation to raid more than once a week since solid groups are getting all 7 wings done in ~3 hours now would be nice. We would also need the ability to start bosses that we've already beaten that week so the raid wing isn't empty for a group that has already done them.

[How badly do we hate sPvP: Arenanet:]

6 hours ago, chaoslordlol.3165 said:

sounds like something a PvEer would tell to a PvPer. 
Have you ever been in PvP? If yes you know what kind of people play it :x 

Indeed, it's a desolate, toxic place with garbage maintenance and terribly unfun balancing. But it's far more bearable with someone you actually enjoy playing with rather than trudging through that swamp alone.

[What was the reason given for sword 2 change?]

As fun as the backwards roll was before, that made it pretty much unusable in endgame pve. This way we got a solid weapon that finally got power soulbeast builds to stop using main hand dagger.

[Better Combat Part 1]

Real skill in this game involves doing both at the same time: navigating the mechanics of the fight while performing a good rotation. Some classes have more spare skills and abilities than others, but everyone can weight the pros and cons of departing from the perfect golem rotation in order to deal with what's coming at you, whether that's using a movement/teleportation skill out of rotation to chase a moving boss, getting CC skills off out of rotation to break a bar, or salvaging an interrupted rotation due to getting CC'ed or because of needing to move around mechanics/kill ads.

Good endgame content will always be a mix of time to do good rotations and time to deal with mechanics. Balancing the two is far more interesting than just one or the other.

Some specs are higher effort than others; if you don't like how much effort your class is requiring, there's always virt. 

[Which gear for Druid Heal Tank?]

I recommend using your harrier set for fractals since there's no tanking mechanic there. If you're making a giver/minstrel set for wvw, you can use one or two pieces of it to become the tank in raids without sacrificing a bunch of useful stats for unnecessarily high toughness. Many pve players would tell you that giver's is better for the one or two pieces that will make you the tank, while wvw players will usually favor minstrel's since it makes you more survivable overall.