theCypher.9406

So, we just tried the new CM with a quite experienced part of our fractal/raid players... 1) HP pool What in hells name. How much HP does the boss have? We really need way too much time to reach phases or at least progress in a way that it feels like we are going forward. If one player dies, just gg. This takes way too long. Hearsay: Somebody stated the boss has ~40million HP in CM mode. That is the same as 10-men content Mursaat CM. If its true: Why? Just why? (Dont tell me its cuz of the power creep, since the same team that supported power creep, developed the fractal). 2) Mechanics Well, i wasnt a fan of strikes on release and i still find them quite dull. But this boss has the SAME mechanics over the whole fight. Regardless how good you are or what you do, you just cant alter the fight. Same mechanics for the whole fight. Some arent even dodgeable (axe jumps, archer shots). Some are bugged (even the wiki lists more bugs than anywhere else Silent Surf Fractal - Guild Wars 2 Wiki (GW2W)). There is literally NO way to adapt, cheese, out-smart or alter the fight in any way. Just do the same pattern over and over and over and over and over and over again. Split (numbers) -> Move out (axes) -> Split (eyes) -> dps -> REPEAT. Exception 66% and 33% HP, where you are going to... wait... uhm... yes, split again. SURPRISE. This goes on for 100% of his HP. You cant do anything during numbers, during eyes or against axes. You cant dodge/block/distort the numbers mechanic. This is really boring and extremely annoying. 3) The dope parts Hehehehe, invisible mobs you cant see can fear you... THAT ONE IS A GENIUS IMPLEMENTATION *respect 😉 *. You cant see it, you dont have the time to search for smth you cant see and... it kills you 😉 The rifle doesnt pin to the platform... Really nice one. You need to jump, game says no cuz of clunky rifle-action key, you jump against a platform. 4 players remaining 😉 Supports can get tethered. The second genius move. Your DPS as hfb for example is barely enough to kill your boss-double. If you are 1 second late, you fail. *poof* 0 players remaining since its an instant-grp-wipe mechanic. Yes you can take the tether, but not in 33% phase or if you are unlucky or somebody died. Smart one 🙂 Every heal-build with lower dps then hfb, is a no-no here... wait. Hfb is omnipresent everywhere currently, so no problem! Resume: Not really thought-through in my opinion. Mechanics could be more creative and HP pool is way too much. Good load of bugs should be fixed. Please step away from this "split - look around - go back - split ..."-style of play. Its annoying and no fun. I am a really big fan of the good ol nightmare and shattered fractal. I made peace with sunqua after a lot of time but this one is hell... a boring, dull, annoying hell 😞 Feeling really sad, since i love fractals and devs usually do a good and stable job imho. But last balance patch and this fractal cm arent fun to me. Sry Greetings Cypher

Dear Developers, it would be a pleasure if you could rework the block/unblock and addFriend-Options during wvw. I constantly get harrassed and insulted in wvw after killing somebody. 1) We were roaming around with 5-10 people capturing objectives. We got killed a few times and we killed some players here and there. Usual wvw business. After like 3-4 hours we killed somebody who just picked me and whispered me a lot of really unfun insults claiming to play a "kitten salvation rev". Which at that time, i didnt even posses on my account. Dunno if he/she picked the wrong player but i have screenshots of the full communication of being insulted and not even being the actual target, but it was really ashaming. "Stupid f***ing kitten" was one of the nicest things he/she told to me. Ofc blocked. 2) Roaming again, killing somebody 1vs4. Happens. You are too slow? You are in enemy territory? They are more people then u? Bad luck. Happens. Happens to me too if i am alone. People want the kills, its player vs player. What is going on with those people? Again, heavy insults without ever meeting the one being killed, no chat before, no problems before, just instant harrassment. 3) Same as 2) but it was 1vs1. You could see the defeated one lying around (it was a close fight, made fun, everything was alright). He lost (he won before, but maybe didnt remember me). After 1-2mins lying around (i was capturing the camp nearby), i got whispered, again flamed for my build (this time a celeRev, since i am not a platinum high end roamer) and insulted. Conclusion: Yes i block those people. Yes i report them. Yes its near usual business at player vs player interaction. But for the love of everything i know of: REWORK THE SYSTEM SO PEOPLE CANT ADD AND STRAIGHTLY INSULT OTHERS! It is really, really, really annoying. Not that i am ranting here or hating those people but its just annoying to get whispered regulary by folks that cant stand to loose/die cuz they are a still a kid, not mature or having problems with balance/builds, whatever. Please fix it so you cant get whispered in any way. It is player vs player and you alrdy reworked it but it didnt change anything. Please reconsider the current system for wvw blocking/unblocking. Thank you very much in advance! Greetings, theCypher

Not gonna lie... I really like that patch and since i play quite a lot of builds and like flexibility, this one addresses a lot of things i would've liked to see earlier (including my beloved holosmith). Tyvm. Well done imo. Greetings TheCypher

The Thread is about armor, not weapons i guess. And there are options to legaly trade account bound items too, not all of them but some at least. About the armor, yes you can "buy" it. You do it by getting carried through the different raid wings, having a grp doing it for you. Be careful though: There is a chance of getting scammed using such a service and you are not allowed to buy the service with real money or anything outside of gw2 mats (see Anet's TOS). Don't get banned or scammed! In Addition: those services are extremely overpriced (imho) and the price for a full set of one armor type values around 2.500-3.000g. Personal advice: get your hands on a nice and friendly guild and do it yourself 😀 Greetings Cypher

Absolutely needed and in my eyes, well done patch 🙂 I can feel the people that would like to have a neat patch for pvp/wvw too, so hope they'll get one soon. All in all, i really like this one since it enables some "dead" classes in pve content again, making them competitive. Really nice imho. Greetings TheCypher

Hi, there aint a farm in terms of "gold-making" in FotFW tbh. At least as far as i know and my researches go. Only thing to mention here that might be considered as a farm: - Boss-Blitz with organized/good squad for champion bags But i doubt its comparable to wintersday JP, lab farm during halloween or anything like that. The upcoming festival is more like a chill-and-relax one. Not really a grind-fest. Greetings TheCypher

Hi, always depends for me... The usual suspects: Metas (VB, Chak, Tarir, Pinata, Palawadan, GH) A world boss here and there if i am in the mood (e.g. Teqtl) Relaxed farm routes (like Bjora Marches) Daily Routines (VM routes, pact agents and such) + Alt Looting CMs + T4 fractals Raid FC once a week Some Strikes (IBS + EOD) about every 2-3 days maybe If i need money fast: T4 aetherblade farm (i own "fractal god" so its a lot of gold for me /hour) Some long term projects and rather less known farm routes. (for the bigger stonks 😉 ) Greetings TheCypher

Depends what you mean by "more than once". Looting more than 1 instance during one meta will be hard - if it is even possible - since the metas usually are full and the chest spawns on kill. Which means you need to be lucky to be the first map to complete the event and then being able to join other maps with ongoing meta and those need a free spot. In addition the chest vanishes pretty quickly. So multi-looting per instance is not possible if i am not mistaken and even if it works i doubt it is manageable. Doing the meta multiple times a day is doable and the chest is lootable on every successfull meta. That would be possible. BUT you will only get one hero's choice chest once per day per account. Additional information: Gerent's Chest - Guild Wars 2 Wiki (GW2W) Greetings TheCypher

Hi, i'll interpret "50+g in 4+ hours " as at least 50g in 4 hours or 12.5+g hour. The question is: do you want to farm that in one go or is it fine to do 2 hours content x today and 1 hour y tomorrow morning and 1 hour in the evening. In general you can do metas like chak and tarir for some nice basic loot that yields a few gold. Tequatl (world boss) is always a safe 1+g. Drizzlewood meta and silverwastes yield quite some gold per hour (10-20g) but you have to do it in one go (no map leave possible) and usually a bit preparation is needed (keys or map currency) and they depend on squad size and coordination/speed. The big player imho would be fractals. Daily is the one thing, the other would be aetherblade t4 farm. The latter will easily yield realistic 15+g / hour and will meet your requirements. A farm with fractal god title and clear times of ~3:30min will get you over 35+g / hour. The advantage: you can take a break and continue without being tight to any certain times/timers. The disadvantage: you need a proper team for t4, agony resistance and some knowledge on how to do it. Alternative: do the farm on t2, but that halves the encryptions you get and will end up at 10+g per hour i guess. On the other hand its way easier to set up and relaxed. (For the title farm you need.... well... the title, which is hell a lot of work) Other things might be strikes (easy 5 IBS + EOD fc), bjora marches chest farm, istan metas, raids and mat farms (elder wood, flax and such). But i cant really tell the gp/h since they all have different requirements (tools, maps, routes), depend on your skill level, grp finding or have daily/weekly/character/account caps (like raids or istan meta). The last thing to mention would be TP-flipping, shard sells and other type of stuff. But that usually needs more time, dedication, have some risk or require deeper knowledge so i wouldnt recommend those. I personally would pick the fractal farm if the gold needs to be acquired fast. Nearly every method then requires you so sell everything you gain if you want the gold instantly. Pick what suits you most 🙂 Greetings TheCypher

My 2 cents: Did quite some dungeons in the past, everything is locked. Did ascalon story, all 3 paths and one twice to have at least 4. Everything is still locked. Greetings

Reallly... like ... what? Hideously implemented? Give a reason pls. Combat tutorial? As i remeber correctly, people on forums demanded exactly that. Because new players arent really tought about combo fields, cc bars and such. Implementing it in EOD might be a bit strange. Since the people need the last expansion which tells them the basics but maybe aint that bad cuz most newcomers might start with exactly that. Thats a point to discuss but it was demanded and Anet delivered. Dodge 5 times in a row is impossible? Oh boy. That quest can be solved by pressing jump and side-stepping. You dont even need to dodge. Sry but that is totally rubbish. Greetings

Would LOVE to see character slot-, bank-tab-expansions and the runecrafters salvage-o-matic for a reduced price ! That'd be great ❤️ Have a nice day all! Greetings

Well. Karma decided you deserve it. So who am i to judge that 🙂 Gratulations. Do you use it yourself or alrdy sold it? Greetings

No way to describe my feelings about that mate... 2 things come to my mind: 1) All the way down to the boiler room of hell for you! 2) Gratulations man. Nice drop 🙂 Good mixed feelings here 😉 Greetings

Relatable. That is what i hope Anet is doing. Trying things. I hope they collect data in the background and will change it like you gave an example for. Like 25% for power and 40% for condi. Would be worth it. I can agree with this. Only one thing i might want to add: most parties that are capable of near instantly phasing Skorvald are trained CM groups. The lower KP area and regular grps wont be able to. I would like to see a different approach to solve this. I think you gave a proper solution yourself already. => Strip boons at combat start. Should lower the burst significantly. And those who are still capable of doing it, might deserve it. Ok cool. What would you change in terms of solid ocean then? 🙂 Greetings

Yeah that is my point. I feel sad because Anet might have introduced a funny gamble option to get some gold out of the economy. But the way it is, i just bought the daily boxes and thats it. Greetings

Well i dont think this was a bad change at all to come up with for now. Anet tried to change the viability of condi classes in general for fractals without having to nerf/push classes individually. People would've cried around in nearly every forum if Anet did it class by class probably. I dont wanna argue that this was super nice and good balanced but it is done without nerfing some class to the ground or buffing to much. And i guess we should get used to things like this. It was all power meta for a long time in fracs, now it is all condi (or like 80/20). Meta will change again, its a bit up to us to adapt too. Anet cant balance everything to 100% fairness and they need to experiment to find good solutions. I dont see the need of the first point. Can agree with the second though. Boss encounters should start clean and people need to know/have the skill to properly buff into their mates rotations and not start like the god of boons and rip things apart in mere seconds. You dont want that.... You really dont. That might make some bosses with a lot of attacks/AoEs and such extremely hard. Since the way agony works, you cant heal that efficiently and this can become a death sentence for regular/bad skilled players in general and a lot of kicks coming in. Since nobody can help them surviving 29 stacks of agony.... Wrong way to fix a class problem in my opinion. Firebrands are the one having to much of everything. This is a clear point for me to fix and rebalance a class. Not the fractal. If you give them unblockable attacks, people that use harder to play classes that got the skill to block correctly to mitigate damage are now suffering heavily. You would kill a lot of skills at other classes that might desperately need their one block skill just because firebrand has to many. Imo, a class not a content problem. Why? Fractal => fast pasted. Why would you want that? Same. Why? Power creep is a balance problem in general. Not an instance and their utilities related one. Be careful what you wish for. I like the fact that there are some chilled fracs and solid ocean is not that bad. Look at the rework of aquatic. I know exactly 1 person that liked it. Rest of my guild and lfg teams are mostly dodging this already or hate it like what-not. Sometimes its ok to keep things as they are. Greetings

Hey everyone, i would like to know what you think about this: I usually do every festival i can get hold of as far as i have the time to do so. In general, most festivals are a welcomed variety to my daily/weekly fracs, raids and so on. With a few exceptions: wintersday and halloween for farming and festival of the four winds for spending my gold on those supply boxes. Now i know that the boxes are mostly there because Anet needs some ways to get money out of the economy to keep it more stable. The past years this worked quite well as far as i could observe it. I spend a lot of gold at the boxes too, just for fun even though i knew i might not get anything out of it. But: it was like investing ~7-8s and a box was worth ~4s. So i usually ended up with spending around 650g and got like 250g back. The price i paid for trying to get an infusion 🙂 Here we are: Anet changed the prices AND the loot table. So we have 3 more items in "super rare" which i find ugly (personal view) but they are also not worth that much and just decrease the chance of the other ones i would like to have. In addition the boxes went up to around 21s and more and are now even less worth (~3s). All according to the wiki calculations. I know its more a gamble and one should not brag much about it since you know what you are up to. But i stopped buying any boxes now because even if it is gambling, it just feels like being scammed or throwing away money out of the window for nothing and the chances being a joke in relation to the price i would pay. I feel like Anet shot themselfs. If people dont buy those boxes anymore it wont even have a positive effect.... Is it just my personal view and whining? 😉 How do you feel about that? Do you still buy the boxes for fun and trying? 🙂 Greetings

I'll admit, F2P is indeed even more useless then i thought in this regard. Thanks for the correction. But you wont get 80g in 4 days just by login rewards with 2 or 3 accounts. So "casually" making 80g in 4 days is not possible with those and you have to use the accounts in a different manner (like doing tarir/chak, whatever). Then it might be doable without much afford, yes. Greetings

There we go. Don't take this personal but those improvident comments are the reason some people who think before they talk have permanently high blood pressure... 1) Playing with 2 accounts is cheating if you do not control them manually without third party software according to Anet's rules. Otherwise it is totally legit. And Anets opinion is the only thing that matters in this context since well... it is their game. 2) You can't do anything with a free-to-play account. So just creating an account will essentially give that account the login rewards and that's it. Since you can't send mail and can't feed your main account it doubles/triples nothing. 3) Buying an account doesnt really doubles/triples anything either. The reason: - Buying a new account so you can trade the mats/gold you get is enough money that it will literally take years before it will benefit you, if you only count in the rewards from logins - If you are concerned about doing a meta and such with more then 1 account then yes, it doubles/triples/... BUT still, you have to pay for that account and you should be glad that people do. And you wont get super rich just because you own 100 accounts. People tend to forget that it takes awful long to login to all those accounts and/or run metas with all of em. Heck, did you even try to loot tarir with 10 accounts within 20mins timeframe?... There you go, not possible. So waste of money for ~80 accounts (regarding you bought 100). So in terms of efficiency, running fractals with fractal god title on your main account will yield much more gold then login in with 200 accounts for 6 hours just to get the login rewards (no, i did not do the math 😉 but i doubt it is more gold...) So take it easy mate. Its not cheating and it keeps the game alive if people buy accounts and just get their login rewards. That wont change the world and important fact: you can do that too. 🙂 Greetings

While i like the general idea that it should be possible to compensate drops you cant otherwise use and have to destroy, that should only be valid for things that won't "kill" the economy and/or devalue something extremely. So not everything should be tradeable or being sold at TP in my opinion. Its not nice to sit on a mountain of asc. armor/weapons pieces but trading would be the worst solution and not the "real" or "best". Since there are a lot of asc pieces, you wouldn't get much gold out of it in first place since a LOT of players would try to sell it then. But i support the idea in general. A bit more mats (not need to be asc mats in the first place) but some mats to work with maybe instead of having to destroy asc pieces or salvage them for things you mostly don't need for anything. Greetings

Seriously this post gave me a headache. Marionette has absolutely nothing to do with those that have more legys as the armory can carry. Those are the 0.008% namely. So no connection/correlation there of any kind... Legendaries to play around with many builds at no cost? Uhm ... yes... because a legy is like a few thousand gold vs like 60 if you craft asc pieces. And as legy has no stat advantage there need to be different things to make crafting a legy worth the effort and cost. And still no connection to marionette. You dont need a specific build fully adapted to marionette only to get the event working. Cant spot any argument here. Not every patch contains balance and new skins and whatnot as Anet alrdy stated that the current ressources are located with Alliances, EoD and DX11. Your expectations werent met. Yeah fine. Something i can at least understand but maybe... dont expect heaven for each patch? Dunno... i love the armory and Anet releases content even though they work at way larger projects. And about this "recycled skins...again". Yes. Not everyone buys all skins once they are available. So they will recycle them to give others a chance of buying them. Greetings

Really like the armory as well 🙂 Great job Anet! Greetings

It doesnt cancel content for those who farm and sell it, that is indeed correct. But it cancels the content for those who buy it. They just skip everything connected to that legy. What is the goal of buying a legy? I dont get why it should be possible to buy a legy or get them all by only doing one type of content. . If you dont like the content you wont get the item(s) behind it. Harsh words but thats the way it is. The point being is to play different content and do it with others (or different/other reasons as well) - at least that is what i think Anet had in mind. It motivates or pushes people to do different content. As long as you dont have to play - lets say WvW - for a year to get that item you need or forces you to reach a certain skill level or pay for it, i think it is a good solution. Players peek into other parts of the game and maybe discover things they like and stick to it. Which creates a healthy - or should create - population in all modes. Of course is playing the content you like the most important thing. But you will never find a solution without a drawback so everyone gets what they want. I think it is ok to push people into a direction for a bit as long as stated above: you arent forced for a long period of time or have to invest to much. Greetings

Well its true. That is a difference. But either way you can just buy it then. And that is exactly what i dont want to see for myself and what kind of kills the legy as well. If you buy it from the shop or from a player it still cancels out the content and the dev's work. Neither source is healthy i think. I never said i dont like the converting of gold/gem. I like that but it is a different topic. I think it is fine to lock some things like legys behind achievements and some special kind of content. And that you cant directly buy them, neither with cash or gold. It is fine the way it is - in my opinion. Greetings