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3 minutes ago, WritersBlock.7594 said:
About a year and a half ago, there was a Black Lion chest that had as a guaranteed drop a WvX Potion, which would grant a small amount of experience to not only WvW tracks, but also PvP tracks. I have been waiting impatiently for these to roll around again, always assuming that they would pop up when a WvW restructuring beta was running, but as I mentioned, they have not reappeared for over a year. It used to be that they came around twice or three times a year or so, but since then there has been nothing. I just read on another post that in August of last year anet got rid of WvW and PvP potions, and I have a sinking feeling that these have been discontinued as well. You can't even find them on the wiki anymore.
The reason why I hope that this is not the case is that I am a strictly PvE player. I hate PvP with a passion and can barely tolerate WvW. I was relying on those potions to get me two Gifts of Battle so I could craft a couple of legendaries, the makings of which have been sitting in my bank collecting dust. I really do not want to have to sink 8 hours of my time into WvW just because anet wants to force players to play WvW in order to craft (older) legendaries, but I have the sinking feeling that this is going to be the case. Has anyone heard that these WvX potions are going to eventually come back, or am I out of luck here?
They are gone permanently... that said, you can spend idk like 5 hours with a pug tag and unlock a gift of battle via the reward track...
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2 minutes ago, urd.8306 said:
It's funny how you have the feeling you could decide who is following a hidden tag and it's wrong to do so.
You don't have your exclusive rights in a mmorpg and I think you gotta deal with it. If you want exclusive fighting there is a guild hall and that arena in EotM where you can do this 24/7.And it's a bit hypocritical isn't it? I mean you want to tell people where to go while you are full dependent on them scouting, flipping stuff because without them you'll fight alone in tier 5 on your spawn.
What part of "It's what the hidden tag was designed for" are you not getting. The developers specifically said that lol Because we asked for it. So, YES following a hidden tag is harassing them.
Also, regarding your "hypocritical" statement, No... fight guilds don't care about PPT. If someone else wants to do that, cool, if not who cares? Best fights are in T2 and T3 anyways. Mediocre PPT is perfect. So no we aren't dependent on them at all. We crack open Garris for the fights and will only flip when the opposition gives up. We've literally stood out of a circle on the lord actively NOT flipping just for the bag farm... So your idea that we care if someone else PPTs shows you've never been in a fight guild.
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3 hours ago, Dawdler.8521 said:
Looks... uh... fun... very... hm...
Well at least the HP bars are visible, I guess🤷♂️God that looks absolutely awful... it's like Maguuma cloud pirate ship...
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Ok to answer the OP properly...
1) Hidden tags are COMPED fight guilds. You aren't allowed in because you aren't running a meta build OR your meta build isn't synergistic with said comp.
2) They are organized and have set lines. What I mean by this, is they have regular players who play regularly together and that is why they do so well.
3) Asking to be on Discord is not some kind of assault on you or elitism. It's a SIMPLE requirement where you don't even have to talk. You can be muted! It's to listen to the commander. How are you gonna know when to push or pull back or cut right or left? The amount of time it takes your brain to register the movement you are already over 300 units away from the group and a dead man/woman.
4) What you are doing, following the hidden tag, is ACTUALLY... wait for it... YOU harassing THEM. You are bringing an unorganized comp into organized fights where 90% of your pugs are gonna die and be nothing but rally bots for the enemies that get downed by the organized group whom... and let me say this again... YOU are harassing by following their closed/invisible tag.
5) The invisible tag was SPECIFICALLY designed for the purpose of fight guilds and other organized comped groups to be able to hide. We FOUGHT for that as it wasn't always a feature for thus very reason. To keep pugs away.
My advice? Get over this obsession you have with feeling hurt or offended and actually talk to someone who is in one of these fight guilds to understand why they do this before making an outlandish post accusing people of being toxic.
Happy trails future loot bag!
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This post causes so much rage in my heart, I can't properly reply without getting banned... Gonna go cool down for a bit, collect my thought then come back and try and reply in a non condescending manner...
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Why is it that you can't disable the skin, refund to those who purchased it, and FOR KITTENS SAKE REMOVE IT from the Gem Store?!?!?!
Between NA and EU you are inconvencing THOUSANDS of WvW players all bc what? Maybe 100 were exploiting?!
The fact this wasn't fixed in this patch is APPALING and truly shows how little they care about the game mode. I mean yeah we always knew we were the red headed stepchild to ANET devs but to have our entire game mode downgraded?! SERIOUSLY?!
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10 hours ago, TheGrimm.5624 said:
Better like that? So if 3 could never hold 50 why did you say 3 could hold 50 when they couldn't? How many were you seeing that were holding 50?
Mind sharing where these number came from? Played in PVT then and now and it was easy then and now even easier. Glass had the issues which is where nerfs came in. We should not balance glass on glass.
So you asked for nerfs since you you weren't meant to stand in AC fire and just aided zerg play?
So this is a matter of Paper Rock Scissors. Glass, Medium, Tank. PVT is Medium, Zerk is Glass, Minstrel is tank in the example you provided.
Boonball impacts gameplay on various levels and lack of counters is the issue. Zerk/Med/Tank are impacted by all this the same.
No the answer here is with enough boons all can be Tanks and Zerks at the same time, and as you add more the more this has a chance to be. Does that make more sense?
Lol no one uses PVT... balanced builds are all either Cele or Marauder...
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If you wanna kill boon ball the solution is simple, nerf Inspiration Chrono's Chaos Aura... boom done...
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I can tell you that for whatever reason, when EBay (home server), faces Blackgate, the lag makes WvW nearly unplayable. It's weird that we face map queues frequently on other servers but the moment we start to push into an enemy BG group, our skills become completely useless. And we are talking about people with high end gaming rigs with the game installed on top tier SSDs.
Again I want to reiterate this primarily ONLY happens when pushing into BG groups. We could be pushing into another server's group on the same BL on the same night and have ZERO skill issues. Then 5 minutes later lag central against BG.
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23 hours ago, Qys.5937 said:
So the super rare was what 3 or 4% drop rate? Sounds super rare to me. I haven't opened nearly 30k and gotten a red poly, flame weapon and Zuzu.
That's the thing with randomness you never really know. Statistically rare? sure. Impossible? no.
Did you read the post? I got all of those crappy Courtly Weapons chests and they are on the same tier as the rest of the "super rare" including the Enchanted Music Box
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I opened 30k ToT bags today
These were my "Super Rare" drops-
ONE Polysaturating Reverberating Gray
ONE Royal Flame Weapon chest
EIGHT Courtly Weapon Chests
The statistical probabilities of the RNG being THAT poor are ASTRONOMICAL. Either the ToT bags are bugged or the rarities are WILLFULLY mislabeled misrepresenting rarity levels on drops in an RNG container which constitutes FRAUD in MANY countries. ANET needs to look into this because there is NO WAY Courtly Weapon Chest should be at the same drop rate as Ember Infusion or the Enchanted Music Box... Every time I saw another one pop into my inventory my blood pressure spiked...-
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Definitely the first time I saw The Strawberry Patch... one of the little hidden areas... that was the moment I truly fell in love with the game...
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4 hours ago, Konig Des Todes.2086 said:
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I'm a bit trepedacious because Taimi has had zero screentime in the main story, Twisted Marionette isn't added to the main story or even hinted at via mail like Twilight Arbor Aetherpath was, and depending on how they go with the story instances, all we might get is Taimi suddenly showing up at the very end in a very bland joke dialogue fashion for all of 3 minutes; they need to add the post-TM Origins of Madness story instance (ideally) and/or the Edge of the Mists open world dialogue that featured her actual introduction to players. Same goes for Canach, who will already only get 3 minutes at most if they add Edge of the Mists open world dialogue.
Similarly, I'm worried that the public group instance will be Battle for Lion's Arch's zone (Lion's Arch Enemy Controlled) rather than the story-rich Escape from Lion's Arch's zone (Lion's Arch Under Attack), or the best option of merging the two together one after the other.
But I'm very curious and admittedly on a bit of hopium that the secretive item of Lion's Pride will be a lounge pass to the original Lion's Arch city (and for extra hopium, that it'll have festival decorations during Dragon Bash, Halloween, and Wintersday).
The fact the strike isn't Prime Hologram does make the interest take a sizeable hit, but given how people enjoyed EoD strikes I'm sure it won't be bad. Just will have that sense of "it could have been better."
Overhyping is bad. It means expectations are too high and people will be disappointed when it launches.
Underhyping is bad. It means people aren't interested and the piece won't get exposure on release when it arguably matters most.
Like all things in life, moderation and a good balance is required.
Uhhh what "secret item"? I didn't see anything about that in the announcement?
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No talk...
No hype...
No presales...
The announcement was only one kitten paragraph with absolutely NOTHING specific mentioned. Just a "Hey Halloween is back on the 18th so yeah..."
Anyone else feel like either ANET just doesn't care or perhaps they are hiding so huge new Halloween stuff? (Second part is probably just my wishful thinking)-
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1) At launch being stunned at seeing everything for the first time.
2) Living World Season 1 was just amazing in concept and execution. First how we were all stunned by the destruction of LA. Then, How the who community came together to help take back Lion's Arch was awesome!
3) Heart of Thorns launch. It was so VASTLY different from core Tyria! Once we broke through to Maguuma we knew it was a whole new ball game! It felt like the original launch all over again!-
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Currently the Magic Find cap is set at 750%. This is including the maxed out 300% you can obtain on your character. That leaves 450% to be obtained via other sources.
Now, according to the official Wiki, you max out your additional sources Magic Find and it adds up to an additional 445%. Bringing you to a total of 745%. My question is where is the additional missing 5%? Is there an error in the Wiki?
Here is the Wiki link for reference- https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Magic_Find.
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1 hour ago, yoni.7015 said:
5 weeks last year, every other year and every other festival is three weeks.
And even this year you can enjoy the Halloween festival again for three weeks. I don’t see a problem.
They always announced the festivals a couple of weeks before the start.I'm going out on what I think is a VERY safe limb here and guessing your main play mode is WvW correct?
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Just now, yoni.7015 said:
Where I live Halloween is not being celebrated. So I don’t really care.
But I actually think it’s good that it starts on the 18th. Otherwise it would collide with the WvW beta weekend.Well, in the states, it's the second largest retail holiday behind Christmas. People in USA go all out for it and I am guessing most of the commenters on this thread aren't from the states. I lived overseas for 5 years and I know the world doesn't view Halloween the way the US does. I just think GW2 is missing out on a lot of potential gem sales starting so late.
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Just now, yoni.7015 said:
What’s the difference if it starts on the second or third Tuesday? I think you are overreacting a bit.
It's more time pre HAlloween as opposed to POST HAlloween... bc that is when everyone is celebrating HAlloween is during the leadup...
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It would be AMAZING if they could recreate the initial emergence of the Mad King for everyone who wasn't there the first year... It could be a running gag where something in LA is in a constant state of repair bc every year he reappears...
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47 minutes ago, Randulf.7614 said:
It’s only shortened versus last year. It’s just a few days later than the previous year and finishes a few days later. I get why people want a longer festival, but their data prob shows 3 weeks is more than enough given players often tend to move on after a week or two.
I’m not against it being longer, but it’s not the kick in the teeth being portrayed. It was just a one off last year
Halloween is EASILY the most looked forward to festival by the player base... by a long shot... The last time they started it so late in the month the player base nearly rioted. It's why every single year they let it trend earlier. First or second Tuesday of the month was the sweet spot. Pushing to the third week is just an absolute trash decision and honestly sucks a lot of the fun out of GW2 Halloween...
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1 hour ago, Konig Des Todes.2086 said:
Last year was not only two weeks longer but also a week earlier than usual due to the additional stuff happening around the time. Return to, WvW beta, and an EXP bonus event. Most events are only 3 weeks long, and Halloween has begun mid-October for every year except last year: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Halloween#Releases
Last year was a complete anomaly and extra.
Right sooooo why not start it the 11th and end it the 1st? Who the kitten hell wants to do Halloween content after Halloween anyways?
Or... and go with me here... Run it from the 11th to the 8th. That way you cover idk the ACTUAL Halloween season and a little later for the late starters. And despite what some people think, Halloween is EASILY the most looked forward to festival in this game by the playerbase.-
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Having it start on the 18th this year is AWFUL... That's a full two weeks after last year's October 5th start date.
Each year you started it earlier to the joy of the player base. It hasn't started this late since 2016...
Everyone wants MORE Mad King event. Why would you shorten it by TWO WEEKS this year?
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WvW Skirmish Claim Ticket system and requirement for Conflux.
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It's literally the most PASSIVE legendary currency generation in the game...