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If the legacy achievements need constant communication with the first game's servers, what happens if or when GW1 goes offline for good? Not saying it will, just musing on a hypothetical. They'd probably just give everyone the skins/pets and make the titles forever unattainable Who am I kidding. They'd probably sell the lot of them for like 1000 gems or something. Titles would still be lost to time though.

What is is with the ranger forum and attracting troll posters these days?

They are but it's a good (if dated) weapon set and having a version that goes all fiery instead of neon ghost blue at night is going to be nice. Much rather these than those ugly candle weapons from last year. Just hope they are reasonably priced. Not really eager to spend 200G+ in cobs for a single skin

The grand irony of a "Necromancer, Engineer, Revenant" player saying these words to Ranger players when discussing WvW performance

So is running toward a zerk ranger with full WvW buffs while running base level armor yourself I'm never allowed to cry about eating a 10k CoR or getting smeared by a DD spamming vault but beelining for a class you know will blow you up from range in level, open terrain is just somehow something people are allowed to do and then bitch about when it goes sideways on them everytime

It's better but you're still just a worse S/D thief with it on They need to remove the cripple requirement for dagger 4's damage and completely rework dagger 5 into a different skill They''re tring to make a weapon that's 7 years behind the curve better by upping the numbers and it's just not gonna fly

Good idea! They should charge for every update too! lol, i sense your sarcasm. o7No, what I am saying is that the game is BTP..updates are included in that but make a worthwhile expansion and people will happily pay.But if you are just gonna go LWSagas and nickel and dime everything in b/w it is not gonna go over well.You know they could do better...everyone knows they can do better. I am just waiting for them to show it. And what are your better ways to monetize the game? Lets start with a more functional spending plan and roadmap for the company and then we can talk about what is or isn't a feasible revenue system What people are willing to pay depends almost entirely on whether they think it's worth it. People will spend $30 on mount skins if they think the money is going toward game development and not just more DLC People will spend $10 on an outfit if the game they are playing that outfit in is engaging and fun They aren't going to spend that money if all they have to look forward to is never ending overworld zerg gold grind to purchase more content from the gemstore There's a reason FateGO prints money while other games with the same monetization schemes are virtually unknown outside of AsiaThere's a reason WoW is still going strong while other $15 a month games fell by the wayside

Yes but I sincerely doubt they would be able to deliver anything close to what Factions felt like Just look at what they farted out for Elona. Half of the Vabbi map doesn't even have mobs on it.

November makes the most sense so of course it won't be that.

Pretty sure its the same music selection for shiverpeaks maps

I see a lot of fake informations now that many players who like the mounts have already stopped playing or left WvW and go back to PvE. Only a handful who are still clinging onto WvW cared to defend it. If you guys check through the history of the forum, you can see that it's always the same few forum veterans posting toxic comments and giving fake infos on how the mount killed WvW. If you are a regular WvW players, playing WvW for hours every day over the past years, and constantly in T1 or T2 where all the actions are, Zerg fights and PPT, you will agree that powercreep and dead metas that lead to low populations every where are the only reasons why more and more players, guilds are giving up. It has never been about the Warclaw Please don't lie. WvWers love the Warclaw. But, gankers on the other hand, have been trying very hard to kill it since it's launch in Feb. Warclaws took away their only fun of jumping on unsuspecting players, forcing fights on support build players. These players mostly mained non meta classes, they are not welcomed in zergs or organised group fights and hence they make the most noise in the forum, asking for nerfs and more. Please stop spreading fake informatons to new players or players who want to try this mode. Your Gankers Mode is back. Go enjoy. The only people who think the warclaw killed WvW are people who think WvW begins and ends with people 5v1'ing solo roamers over camps delivering supply to empty keeps and towers Warclaw has done nothing but keep people in the game that would have quit long ago by making traversing the map that much easier

Just log off and go trade crypto or something. You'll actually earn something tangible for your efforts

However, my main concern after the layoffs was the company's morale - now that GW2 is the only (and likely last) game ArenaNet has, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the employees who have been there for a long time decide to leave. There's only so much time one can stand working on the same project, after all. Whether or not GW2 can afford to lose that many experienced developers, in other hand... Everybody is replaceable, a lot of people think they are not, but they all are.Human beings are not interchangeable widgets, least of all in the creative sense The only people who believe this are corporate bean counters and people who don't interact with others face to face enough

edit NVM, just noticed someone necroed a thread from March 5

Same drop rate of all meta infusions (likely 1:10,000,000 at least) There's just no where near as many people pulling the gatcha leaver this time compared to the egg sack or the pinata

Why would it be? Because devs who were most likely not working on GW2 left? Okay then, rationality seems to be lost on some Man who co-founded ArenaNet and ran it that entire time leaves "Nothing to see here folks..."

Necros tag 10 people at a time now Loss of the evade on auto is absolutely felt

Well scourge's issue has always been it's area denial. The thing is that the core necromancer is already one of the best at area denial, between staff and the utilities a core necromancer can already pack it's bar almost full of it. Adding shades on top of that was just increasing area denial by 50%. That's pure powercreep that goes beyond balance, nothing more nothing less. All of PoF is powercreep though.How do you reconcile a guardian getting 3 class mechanic button-pushes and firebrand getting 21? You can't.Hard not to realize the gw2 manifesto went out the window before HoT launch, Mike can call it a sidegrade all he wants.It was obvious from the start that epsecs were going to be power creep Half the reason we aren't probably going to get another in the near future is because they have absolutely no idea how to introduce a new one and make it desirable without completely imploding a game that's already at the breaking point in many areas Can you imagine the absolute shit show that would arise from a third wave that was even better than the PoF specs?

I can't second that impression, sorry. WvW has been quite crowded these past couple of days. Define "crowded"

I fail to see how your inability to control your personal spending is a valid criticism of a system How does a game demanding more money from me and me quitting as a result mean i'm a wild spender? For a troll i'll give you 10/10 for mental gymnastics. I spend an allotted monthly amount to support games i like because i still want them in business. Them randomly deciding to tank my qol for not spending the way they want me to is inviting me to leave. And horrible way of saying thank you for your support. But if you like that sort of abuse feel free to keep taking it. I'm sorry you're spending way too much on the cosmetics you do buy because you can't wait for a crown sale. You already admitted to happily spending more than $15 a month just to spend the money This is just you making up copes to argue emotion because you don't want to be wrong

I fail to see how your inability to control your personal spending is a valid criticism of a system

hornet sting still works the exact same way it always did and you can spam the leap every 8s (or less on HS hit) to bounce around They also swapped the cooldowns so serpent's strike (the good evade) is every 8'ish seconds The only thing it needs is a bigger window for SS to be used instead of the 3s we have now we all have to relearn the weapon but I suspect this will be a massive buff for people who want to kill and the people who want to dance with the weapon It's such a buff that I'm almost willing to forgive the LB and GS nerfs because not only is 1h just flat better now, it's so dramatically changed that we have a whole new toy to play with. That's the kind of thing you don't really get outside of an Espec release I don't see how can you forgive them for nerfing LB and GS when Sword is basically the same. Only the dance is different, but the song is the same. You still can't do much damage with the sword, the dagger is almost useless too. So we lost 2 main sources of damage, for 2 pc of dancing ... that's it. I tested these weapons in sPVP. I don't want even to imagine how it will be in WvW.In sPVP Sword+Warhorn/Axe+Axe boon beast is ok ... but cmon ... this was the reason? Anet want boon beast to be the only build in sPVP?"almost willing" GS and LB nerfs are garbage but I can just not think about it too much if some other aspect of the class is more fun to use It's all we can do. Anet's not gonna go and unerf LB. They gave everyone the ability to dismount other players in the same update they nerfed the LB because Ranger's were dismounting players. None of this makes any sense and is just clown world balancing at this point

OMG you can do it LITERALLY? Holy kitten, I mean imagine it was just figuratively. Don't overuse this kitten word and don't use it wrong like 99% of the cases. I can't see this kitten word anymore. Sir, please calm down

Naaaaahhh 1500 is perfect... 3 dodges ? 10k health? Get outta here. Screw warclaws and you dang zergers. Cant wait to turn you into lootbags "Why is WvW dying? Why don't new players want to try this mode?!" they all cried...

All of those are sub based games. Your QoL in ESO is terribad without craft bags, which is why I quit. In addition to gatcha style cosmetics. You get $15 worth of cash shop fun bux with your sub and GW2 also has "gatcha style cosmetics" my dude try harder And seriously, get out of here with this "ew sub fees" bullshitPaying $15+ a month because you "choose to" isnt better than a compulsory $15 flat fee just because your favorite game does the former