Ol Nik.2518

Minion Master (any type) is the ultimate choice for people with hand injuries/problems. I have carpal tunnel on both hands and tried every single class and spec in the game. MM is the most forgiving build. On top of high vitality and minions that can tank and keep aggro, necros have the best downed skill in the entire game: It heals you while doing decent AoE damage to enemies. Even if you cannot dodge it is almost impossible to die. Another easy build is a bearbow ranger (core ranger with longbow and brown bear). It is ridiculously easy to play: Stay on longbow at all times and use skills 1,2,5. You do not need to worry about dodging since you can hit your targets from far away and your bear will tank for you. Please note that this build is okay, but not great for HoT and PoF. Also, people dislike rangers that abuse skill 4.

lol This is why EAnet made the grind as high inorder to sell them I've never acquired any Home Instance Nodes with Gems. I mean, it's not that difficult to come up with 50 Gold. Can you even buy the LS currency nodes for gems? I thought they were a vendor only item.You can buy gold to buy a node. They are 50g each. Still need karma or magic, iirc.

It gives AP, doesn't it? That is enough for an AP junkie.

Is it 6 or 7-rune sets?

I think I saw some WvW comms complaining about the excess of PvE players due to the new mount. Their main solution was to teach PvE players the basics, help them finish with the warclaw, and bid them farewell ;)

If you absolutely need to play, install Parallels Desktop (14-day trial) and WIndows 10 (90-day trial) or use BootCamp with the same Windows 10 trial. I did a test run in Parallels Desktop, it works fine. My gaming mouse has some minor problems (not all extra buttons work properly), but if the problem with Mac client persists I will find a way to fix it. So far this is the best solution I found.

It's been over 24 hours and no fix. It would be nice of ArenaNet to roll back. Alternatively, they could give all Mac users automatic completion of all festival dailies in those days that the game is unplayable.

I experience the same issues as others: game randomly crashes on loading the map, around other players, when trying to use skills, and so on.

There is no need to heal near the dolyaks if you eat some cheap health regenerating food. Wintersday presents drop cakes with 10% karma bonus and health regen, those are perfect for all Wintersday instanced activities (except the strike mission).

TP flipping works just fine. You might need to learn a bit of patience and do some research, though. If you have initial capital you can easily make 1000g/week on TP.

Only messages identical or very similar to the previous ones are suppressed. If you are a bit creative in your messaging, you can message non-stop :) I usually alternate between 'daily/JP/ports' for daily JPs and 'bounty/daily/bounty's name' for daily bounties.

Have you tried a small window for UW combat (so you can see the desktop and some static icons/pictures on it)? Depending on underlying reasons for your motion sickness this trick might help.

No, I'm not dodging anything. I have explained my view several times nowWe have a status in which several languages can be dealt with. In EU this is german, french, spanish and of course english. If people insult in those languages Arenanet can take action because they already have support staff for that. That is verified for all those 4 languages.As far as I know there is no staff for Swedish, Polish or any other language. Correct me if I'm wrong. If players are abusive in other than the above mentioned 4 languages it's nearly impossible for the support to sanction it. This is crucial but negligible because players in the EU are predominantly using the English language. Especially scandinavian countries are very well-educated in the English language. Is there any data to support this claim? Am I correct in understanding that your argument is based on assumption that Cyrillic support in chat only (no localisation, no technical support, no conflict resolution, etc) will dramatically increase the number of players whose native languages use Cyrillic script? Are you suggesting that people who do not use map chat now will suddenly start using map chat after addition of the Cyrillic script support? Or are you suggesting that there are very few people in the game who would benefit from the Cyrillic script support? I also wonder why you are avoiding talking about guild, group, or squad chats. Are you implying that if people tend to use English in map chats they do not use their native languages for group or guild communications? I wonder if you can support this claim with facts and/or research. As it is now I find it to be quite problematic and somewhat xenophobic. No, I just said if you add another language and another one and another one you are expanding a potential pool for abusive chats you cannot control (I never stated that a certain community is more toxic than the other. People are people.) That is what was explained by the video of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver with the topic about Facebook and its struggle in Myanmar with hate speech earlier on in this thread. Somehow I doubt that GW2 could ever play the same role as Facebook in promoting hate speech, but let's roll with it.Would you agree that in order to reduce the potential for abusive chats ArenaNet should remove diacritics and special characters that are not used in English, French, Spanish, and German?

@Vinceman.4572Pardon my frustration, I am absolutely lost in your argument. Earlier you said this: I asked you this: Your answer was this: I clarified what I meant by support in case there had been a misunderstanding: You answered: That doesn't play any role in this case and has no relevance to the topic. I reinstated my initial question reminding why Polish and Swedish are relevant in this case: Please note that you answered this to another person in this thread: Yes, no one. So, they don't release the demon of enlarging the potential pool of diverse insults and stick with that. It's a rational and financial situation overall. This is a direct acknowledgement by you that there is no moderation and conflict resolution for Cyrillic-based languages that are currently used in GW2 chats via transliteration. You answered with the following to my question 'So, would you be so kind to elaborate why languages that use Cyrillic alphabets would need chat moderation and conflict resolution teams after the implementation of Cyrillic in chats, but do not need it now despite being used via transliteration?': You are quite misinformed. There is support for chat moderation. English, German, French and Spanish speaking support but there isn't a dedicated support for Polish and Swedish people as far as I know. They have to use the English one which is already installed. To your 2nd question the problem of abusive chat will arise as people will use the cyrillic letters as well - just a matter of access. So, from the company perspective: How do you react to that? Leave it to the players because you have no support staff that can deal with it or do you hire additional employees whereby we're back at the money thing and don't speak about 1-2k dollars. ========You are not answering my question. You are dodging it. It seems, however, that you are implying that if people are allowed to type in their native script it will lead to an increase in abusive behaviours in chats. This conclusion is based on these words which are the answer to my question specifying that people still write in their native languages in GW2 chats using transliteration: I wonder if you can support this claim with facts and/or research. As it is now I find it to be quite problematic and somewhat xenophobic.

Don't I? I encourage you to re-familiarise yourself with this thread. I was one of the first people in this thread to suggest full UTF support in GW2 chats that would also mean support for Greek. There is no law that says that people have to be kind to other people but it might be a nice thing if they did.

You and I, we both don't know. But people were bringing up "easy fixes" all the time when it was also stated by the company that things are getting complicated when it comes to certain changes. I never said and never will that this is the issue but it is one possible aspect. Considering that EU/NA GW2 chats support Korean and Traditional Chinese and that they show correct punctuation and a correct number of spaces for Cyrillic-based languages this whole issue might boil down to fonts. Speech bubbles also correctly render Korean and Traditional Chinese and display spaces for Cyrillic letters, so there is no problem here. This was discussed in this thread earlier. You can search for relevant posts if you are interested in more details.

That doesn't play any role in this case and has no relevance to the topic. Wow... You said that addition of support for Cyrillic script in chats would require hiring support teams for chat moderation. I asked you why is it necessary for Cyrillic-based languages while it is not done for Latin-based languages. And now you are saying that it is irrelevant that Polish and Swedish do not have dedicated support teams despite being fully supported in chats. So, would you be so kind to elaborate why languages that use Cyrillic alphabets would need chat moderation and condflict resolution teams after the implementation of Cyrillic in chats, but do not need it now despite being used via transliteration? If you read properly you would have noticed that I've already adressed this issue. But I ask you one question: How often do you read transliterations in the official map chats (not group, squad or anything else)? I'm on EU and I must tell you: Almost never. People are mostly using the english language to communicate on the EU servers. Of course I can't speak for NA servers, although it would surprise me if the population of russian speaking players would be bigger than on EU. Why are you limiting this issue to the map chat? Are you implying that since the majority of people use English in map chats they have no need for their native languages in other chats? Have you ever considered that players who are not proficient in English do not use map chat at all despite being very active in group and guild chats? Petitioners here do not ask for Cyrillic support to flood map chats with Cyrillic. They ask for it to be able to talk to their compatriots in guilds, parties, and squads. Why should newer players responsible for chat abuse in the first place. That makes no sense and is again of no relevance. Let me clarify this for you. The support for Cyrillic script would bring new players to the game. Hence, the sheer number of players will increase. The increase in player base might increase the number of chat abuse reports. This does not mean that new players would be responsible for transgressions. It is entirely possible that new players will report abusive behaviour of old players that do not like to see Cyrillic in chats. Difficulties in reading on your side? I said I support it but you and others just don't accept that there are maybe issues for them to not being able to correspond to your wishes. And I repeat: I don't think they are not supporting it because they don't want to or aren't able to use an easy way of software package implementation (or anything related you would need). I encourage you to re-read your own statements. I also believe that it would be easier fo you to keep track of the argument if you did not delete nested quotes. Two wrongs do not make it right. I am not here to speculate about ArenaNet's decisions and reasoning for them. Neither I have sufficient information for that nor I am interested in that. I am here to support the petition of over 40 000 people who ask for a small quality of life update. I also strongly believe that games marketed to the EU should not deprive EU citizens of communication in their native languages (e.g. Bulgaria is an EU member and uses Cyrillic script).

They don't have support for Polish or Swedish. Polish and Swedish languages are fully supported in the chat, i.e. all letters with all diacritics can be typed and are displayed properly. There is nothing in the game that prevents Polish or Swedish users from communicating in their native languages in a manner they are used to. I am not talking about technical support or moderation. You incorrectly assume that people who cannot type in their native alphabet use English in chats. They do not. They use what is called transliteration, i.e. they use Latin letters to represent sounds of their native language. If anything, the introduction of Cyrillic script will make chat supervision and moderation much easier because automatic translation software does not work with transliterations well. There might be a higher number of chat abuse reports, but that would be the result of new players joining the game, which is good for the bottom line, isn't it? I believe a statement like 'I do not want ArenaNet to spend money on the implementation of Cyrillic script in chat' reflects your position better. You are not an ArenaNet employee and do not know what their priorities are.

I would also suggest playing with graphics settings. I found that I can tolerate the game better if I use low settings since they reduce the sharpness and intensity of some visual effects. The lowest setting for character models helps to minimise the number of players in shiny/sparkly outfits.

Thanks for supporting my argument. Why expand the chat possibilities that only cater to a certain subset of the player base if you already cannot control everything you want right now? The majority of players are communicating in english due to being native speakers or being able to speak english. The next subsets are german, spain and french (I personally don't know about the chinese market and I guess no one knows here) and Arenanet have people for them in their staff. So, for supporting cyrillic chat they have to hire new support stuff a thing which is most likely not to happen if we take a look at what has happened to the company this year. It's about money and therefore I doubt that Arenanet has the capacities of realizing it.Why does ArenaNet have to hire new support staff for languages with Cyrillic scripts but not languages with Latin script?Why is it fine to add full chat support for Polish or Swedish but not for Bulgarian? NB: Polish and Swedish require sets of diacritics not used in German, French, or Spanish, therefore, it is technically possible to limit chat only to officially supported languages.

Could you post a link? I am afraid I was unable to find what you are referring to.

This statement is simply false. There is no Polish, Swedish, Gaelic, Finnish, Korean, or Italian department of support stuff despite the fact that they are supported in chat. The only four languages that have support on EU/NA servers are English, Spanish, French, and German. But people can use any language which writing system is based on the Latin alphabet and weirdly enough, Korean language (perhaps the support for Chinese characters in Korean is limited but they are not used often anyway). I find this curious. Are you saying that there is no team of employees at arenaet that speak those languages? If someone reports abuse in Swedish, there isn't a single employee in the entirety of the company that can respond? If true, then Arenanet is making the same mistake many businesses make. If not true, then they do have a support team of employees who speak these languages natively. There are over 100 languages that use Latin script. I seriously doubt that even NCsoft (ArenaNet's parent company) has resources to hire people who can speak all those languages sufficiently well to respond to support tickets. This, however, does not mean that those languages cannot be used in chat. The only thing that matters in GW2 chat is whether writing system is Latin-based or not: If it uses a Latin alphabet you can type it as in any native application; if it's not you are screwed. I think that you are conflating chat support with localisation. This is not what this thread calls for. This thread specifically asks for Cyrillic script support in chats, i.e. players want to be able to write and read in chat using Cyrillic alphabets. No one asks for game translation or support in their native languages.

430 MF is rather low. You should aim for 600 MF to get close to 600-700 bags per hour. Use a full set of stackable MF buffs: Banners, guild boost, community bonfire, fireworks, food, utility, item booster, celebratory booster, etc. It is also important to maintain your MF at all times.

This statement is simply false. There is no Polish, Swedish, Gaelic, Finnish, Korean, or Italian department of support stuff despite the fact that they are supported in chat. The only four languages that have support on EU/NA servers are English, Spanish, French, and German. But people can use any language which writing system is based on the Latin alphabet and weirdly enough, Korean language (perhaps the support for Chinese characters in Korean is limited but they are not used often anyway).

Cyrillic alphabet is used for over 50 different languages, not just Russian. Some of those languages (e.g. Bulgarian, Serbian) are spoken in Europe. Implementation of Cyrillic in chat would allow players who speak those languages to communicate more comfortably. It is also worth mentioning that Cyrillic is one of the three official scripts of the European Union. It makes perfect sense for EU servers to support Cyrillic alphabets.