Zohane.7208

You seem to be under the misconception that just because you started the lfg you're somehow the party leader. Thing is, there's no party leader so anyone and everyone have equal rights. When I run my daily fractals it's almost always completely random who goes to set the next fractal, and even though I usually form the group I'm just as happy that others run up and set the dial. So I'm actually very much against what you're saying; I think people should be encouraged to use the thingy. If anything needs to be" taught" it's the usual order of fractals in a given tier. In t4 it's common practice (at least in EU) to go from highest to lowest, whereas I believe it's common to go from lowest ti highest in lower tiers. Once people know and understand this, it really doesn't matter who sets the dial. Also, if someone should manage to select the wrong one, the team can always opt to return to mistlock and try again.

If you consider yourself the "leader" of the party and want to make sure the fractal selection is the one you want, just wait with clicking until everyone else has clicked, then do a quick check that it's still the correct fractal before you click. That's a quick and easy circumvention.

Which Maguuma do you refer to? There's Maguuma Jungle, Maguuma Wastes, Heart of Maguuma, and Horn of Maguuma - all vastly different

Thanks for that, much appreciated!

It's not been patched. I just now had it happen and had to restart the entire mission. I have previously successfully completed it on several characters so it's definitely not a hard bug. @Rubi Bayer.8493 Any insights into this, Rubi?

So here's a suggestion: put up an lfg in raids (either subgroup is fine) saying "w4 hotjoin, we go when we're full" or something, then let us know how it worked out. Feel free to pick other wing if you like 🙂

In group content you won't get oneshot as much as you think, as long as you know the encounter well enough to avoid the earth-shattering mistakes. The healers usually do an excellent job at keeping people alive - that is, after all, one of their main tasks 🙂

A quick and easy way to get rid of (most) ads for sellers is to type -sell in the search field.

This request seems to pop up every once in a while, and the assertion is always that there are so many players in Brazil that they need/deserve a localization. Has anyone ever actually shown that this assertion has any merit, or is it just an unsubstantiated claim?

I got news for you: NOTHING in this game is a real commodity; they're all virtual. Now that that's out of the way, here's how Anet explained how gems work: At launch, Anet set up a pool of gems - it's not known how many they were, but let's say 10M. When people buy gems for RL money, this generates gems in their account, effectively increasing the number of gems existing in the game. When people buy things for gems, this removes gems from them, effectively lowering the amount of gems in the game. When a player uses gems to buy gold, the gems are put in the pool of gems, thus lowering the value of gems in the pool. When a player uses gold to buy gems, these are bought from the pool, thus increasing the value of the gems. Now, could Anet add gems to the pool, thus lowering the cost of gems? Yes, of course they could, but they said they wouldn't and to the best of my knowledge, this hasn't happened. Back at launch, you could buy gems for gold at about 1g/400gems or so, right now it's about 150+g/400gems and it's been a lot higher.

Autoreply: "Dear <player name>. Thank you for your report regarding another player's conduct. Yout report has been revieweved and appropriate action has been taken." How's that? Or, they could just simply state that they will not discuss the outcome of a report with the reporter. Oh wait... 😄

This seems like a really good idea. I would suggest a filtering option where you can turn mail on/off from friends list, guild members, and others.

An analogy: My brother was born 3 years before me, it's not fair that he got to do all the fun things 3 years before me.

You get the mastery point after completing 8 out of the 12 listed achievements, so you will most likely have gotten that MP a while ago.

Not sure if it's helpful or not, but you can check in the windows log app to see what happened. When I have this kind of crash-without-a-crash it's almost always ntdll.dll that's the issue.

To add to Kanon's post, some settings like graphics and sound and such are also reset since those are stored locally on your PC, so if you want to be sure you may want to screenshot (and transfer) those settings so you can replicate them easily.

Just for reference: Parsec is a measure of distance, not time 😄 Just thought I'd get that in there in case someone was confised...

For pugging I definitely recommend harrier, since you can never be sure how the others will perform. A harrier hfb can keep groups alive even through some really bad mistakes. (Sometimes it won't be enough of course but that happens...) Celestial is for sure viable but it's more likely to be useful in an experienced static group, where you're aiming at getting away from the healer eventually and play qfb instead.

The community seems to want to have thisheal/boon combo in most instanced content, so I disagree with your statement here. If it should be a pre-req for auto-lfg to disregard the community's wishes for teambuilds then it's highly likely that the auto-lfg wouldn't be much used. (I'm not arguing whether or not the team building block of heal/boon/3xdps is needed or not, I'm simply noting that this is what the community as a whole seems to want.) Also, the narrowing I referred to was TheNurgle's - previously they have discussed team building as a whole, and that was met with a number of specialty roles in raids and CM strikes. Not they try by narrowing the proposition down to instanced group content except those.

Even when you narrow it down to the non-raid/non-CMstrike content, you're still faced with the fact that healers come in 2 main flavors, quick/heal or alac/heal and booners also come in 2 flavors, quick/dps or alac/dps. You have to match those such that a quick/heal gets together with an alac/dps and vice versa. Might not be "special role" but it's still a combo the players have defined, which automatically puts it out of the scope of any automated system Anet might be able to build. There are also some special roles used mainly in fractal farming, but let's leave those aside for now 🙂

Raptor: super fast on short bursts Bunny, fast jumps though slightly lower than skyscale can Skimmer: only mount that can glide above/under water Jackal: Only way to take sand portals, plus fast on short bursts Griffon: Reallyreallyreally fast flying but takes a bit of height to get started Beetle: super fast on the ground but takes practice/luck to avoid obstacles Warclaw: only mount usable in WvW Siege turtle: siege damage, and can be used to taxi people So no, no mounts are obsolete.

The idea of a queueing system comes up every now and then in the forum. When the experienced/hardcore/toxic (pick your favourite) people subject it to scrutiny there always pop up a number of questions which seem to make it not a very good idea. To this day I haven't really seen anyone come up with a good answer to (more or less) any of these questions. So the idea of a queueing system seems dead in the water. Also, my experience with the lfg is vastly different; I only ever see a few people selling so it's mostly people seeking to make groups for their runs. Granted, a lot of these groups ask for experience - but that may be since they are in the "experienced" category, either in strikes or in raids category.

AA is ridiciluously easy to get; some days I can barely log in before I have all (or almost all) dailies done, and weeklies are usually done by tuesday, at least 6 or them. I don't foresee any problems cleaning out the vault after refresh either, so I'l happily buy the gold bags - again, it's not like it's a big effort to get the AA. But for those that don't feel it's worth it, I guess they can happily just ignore the dailies/weeklies/specials and go on with their daily life 🙂

Today I saw an lfg for SotO strikes 500+LI. That felt really over the top.

You should probably discuss this with the people at Discord rather than at Arenanet?