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@"Rikimaru.7890" said:So last stress test I did a mastery point that requires you to take on the role of a Sous Chef and throw ingredients at the Head Chef he tells you to bring while he runs around the kitchen.It was quite amusing to do but the thing is I find it to be a huge waste of time from the developers. I don't mean it's bad or anything, it's just that since it's a mastery point you can only do it once and only once, as unlike Hero Point's, Mastery Point's are per account not per character.So I find it a waste to create a mini-game that that we can only play once.Maybe it will be possible to redo it like some Hero Point's for additional rewards, but I doubt it and it would never be as popular as HP trains in HoT.So is this a mistake from ANET and it was suppose to be a Hero Point?
Select the option for "show all usable objects," or you'll have no chance.
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@Healix.5819 said:
@Fallesafe.5932 said:I didn't see a separate slider for GW2 when I opened the sound panel last night. But I'll definitely check into that when I get home tonight. Thanks for the suggestion!It'll only be shown when GW2 is capable of playing sound, so once you reach the character select. Also check any other playback devices you may have, and under GW2's sound options, you can specifically set which playback device to use.Ok, good info thanks! It's gotta be something simple like this.
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@"Nokomis.5076" said:Are you sure, GW2 isn't just muted in sound settings from Windows?
I didn't see a separate slider for GW2 when I opened the sound panel last night. But I'll definitely check into that when I get home tonight. Thanks for the suggestion!
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Hi all,
I have a really weird sound issue going on here. Yesterday, I reset my laptop to factory default in order to give it to my brother this coming weekend (MSI gaming laptop). He plays GW2 as well. So I installed a fresh copy of the game and noticed that the sound was a little off. It was like everything was coming through a tin can. So I updated the audio driver, and everything sounded fine in and out of game.
But MSI computers also use some program called Nahimic that does some extra boosting to the sounds. So I installed the latest Nahimic, and found that there's no longer any sound when I play GW2. But it seems to be fine everywhere else (YouTube, internet, etc). I looked at all the sound settings in game and couldn't find any obvious solution at all. Every slider was maxed out, etc.
Im going to see my brother tomorrow, and would love to get this issue fixed. Unfortunately, Im stuck at work until late tonight, and wont be able to mess with this any more until then. But does anyone have any ideas what could be going on here? Thanks!
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Lol, nevermind
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@Feanor.2358 said:
@Trevor Boyer.6524 said:@"Weerus.3701" said:OP, you are blindly trying to use victim card called elitism. Raid builds are most used for a reason. I would encourage everyone to try strict copy, and if they can't preform well with it, tweak around it, change some skills or traits at the cost of some dps. If you can't afford it, get the general idea, and make the closest approximation. Make it, so that build works out for you. You ought to give it your best when there is an instanced party for dungeons, raids, fractals or spvp. Open world wvw or pve solo/squads, you are free to use whatever. Just please don't try to drag people down, not everyone has the patience as me to waste hours on end helping ppl without proper builds and skill, just so that they use victim card ingame or on forums.Some people are so underperforming that it takes 1 T4 fractal instance literally more that 30min to complete. There was a time I sticked with such people, helped them, gave some advices, but everything was received poorly from their side. I decided I don't have 3 hours of time to waste everyday just to complete T4 daily fractals, thus I started to advertise my party as "T4 daily (food&pots)". If people bring their own food and potions(even if cheap variants), for me that's a sign that person is really trying their best, to help the party make enjoyable and fast T4 clear, and I really respect that. That's far from elitism. As for classes, I take whatever comes in first, and I always do T4 dailies with a power warrior friend (so not elitist to begin with). Even so, sometimes it happens that party synergy is just too low, and we fail to do one instance over and over again. At that point someone will 99% leave, and only then will Istart searching for heal druid, to help my party members survive.As for dps meters, they are needed to some extent. I never bashed anyone for their dps or threatened that "I'm watching" . I like to monitor my own dps, and compare it to dps of other classes. A lot of people are even asking if anyone uses dps meters and if you can give them report at the end of the fight. So the only ones that are against them, are really the people that are trying to hide something. The fact that they play with blue gear? The fact that they only 111111,6,11111111,6? I don't know..What I would like to see is some kind of ingame buff table, so I could monitor party alacrity/quickness uptime, since I use chrono quite a lotVictim card? I think you need to reread the OP statement and read through the thread as well, which is an extension of the OP statement. All that was said was: "Raid Meta Elitism is unnecessary for the completion of T4 fractal daily runs" and it is. It was other people making assumptions in their conjecture that turned the discussion into strange places, sort of like your statements.Vague & Broad statements for the troll bro.No, that was notallthat was said. The essence can be summarized in "raid meta is not necessary for the completion of T4 dailies,so you should not ask for it". However, what I should and what I shouldn't is up to me to decide, not you and not OP. Which renders the whole thread meaningless, as you're clearly not willing to accept that simple fact.This.
I don't really even understand the point of this thread, or what we're arguing about anymore. OP stated that raid meta wasn't necessary for basic T4 fractals. And I think that 95% of us could agree that this is true. But, if somebody wants to do it anyway, then nobody gets to have any say in it (folks will either join the group or not). Are we just having a whining/judgement session now?
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@Seera.5916 said:@"Trevor Boyer.6524"
Yes there are fewer anything goes LFG's going up for currently existing fractals.
You've identified the wrong cause.
When Fractals were first released 100% of the game's population that wanted the rewards that came from Fractals did not have it. This includes those who love to play the meta and those who prefer to play whatever build floats their boat that hour. So you had a mixture of groups: meta and anything goes. As time goes on, more and more people get the rewards from Fractals that they want. And some people will stop playing Fractals once they've gotten the rewards they want from it. Fractals weren't fun for them (or whatever the reason is they stopped). Some of the PUG people will form static groups. Once the external rewards are gone, it turns to the intrinsic rewards to keep people playing a game mode. The "Is it fun" factor becomes the number 1 factor here.
So people play the fractals. And it's the same fractals every time. After awhile, the new wears off and it's no longer fun to just run through the content. We're at this step. Most casuals have gotten all the rewards they want from Fractals and it's just not fun anymore to just run through Fractals, especially if you spend a lot of time wiping due to bad group composition (which can happen in anything goes groups). So some casuals will drop out. Others will begin to invest in learning the meta. Because that adds a challenge of learning a new build. Some of those casuals who learn the meta won't mind doing so in anything goes groups. Others will gravitate towards the meta preferred groups.
So yes, more groups are advertising for meta groups and for experienced players. Because most fractal players have played all of the fractals over 100 times and they're just running it to get the drops and gold for it and the run itself isn't that fun anymore. So they want to get in, get out, and on to whatever aspect of the game they find fun as quickly as possible. Not spend 30+ minutes in a teaching run or 30+ minutes in a run with a ton of wipes. Because Fractals when you get in and get out are some of the highest gold/hour in the game. But it's not that way if you spend 30+ minutes in a single fractal.
Until ANet adds in a decent amount of new Fractal rewards, this is likely going to be the case.
I can confirm this. I've always pugged fractals. And T4 pugs are pure pain. Now that I have my omnipotion, ad infinitum, and mastery points, I have no reason to subject myself to that punishment anymore. And I'm totally supportive of people who want to run meta groups. It must be fun to tear through that content in a PROPER group full of skilled people. And, if I ever went back to doing them again, that's how I'd be looking to do it.
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@Trevor Boyer.6524 said:
@Fallesafe.5932 said:@Trevor Boyer.6524 said:Raid Elitism has been slowly but surely seeping into fractals for quite some time now.... [etc etc etc]I'm sure you're exaggerating the situation a lot. But I'm sympathetic to people who want to form groups with some standards. Because most t4 pugs are dreadful, and frustrating to the uttermost. Try this experiement... Next time you see a daily Nightmare, Thaumanova, or Shattered observatory, join a group with no specific requirements (i.e. "all welcome," "chill run," "casual run" etc), and see if you don't wipe at least half a dozen times.I'm by NO means an elitist or an elite player. But people drive me out my mind with their terribleness. And I totally understand why somebody would just want to write LFGs that intimidate bad players from joining.Already there with ya bud. I posted a video a few pages back where I join the very first PUG group I see with no requirements and then carry their raid metas through the fractals because they were not so experienced. When they leave after first 2 fractals, I make my own group named: "T4 Chaos All Bads Welcome - I Will Carry You" and players join who needed to be carried and I carried them. 39 minute completion while having no competent players in the party other than myself.It's not really a big deal if you are a true champion.That's great, I love it! Now that I don't need anything else from the fractals (i.e. collections, achievements, etc), I spend more time helping new players through them than any other thing in game. But I still stand by my earlier comment... There are people coming home from work with like an hour and a half to play. They don't have time to run training camps every day. And they've got every right to form the sort of groups that will be as efficient as possible.
I'll go back and watch the video you mentioned. But I have a hard time believing you were able to help bad players through some of the harder fractals for average pugs to complete. Because there's nothing you can do to make other people dodge. And I doubt they were all sitting there dead waiting for you to solo Arkk, Ensolyss, etc. Helping people is an awesome and rewarding thing. But nobody is obliged to spend their time that way.
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@"Trevor Boyer.6524" said:Raid Elitism has been slowly but surely seeping into fractals for quite some time now.... [etc etc etc]
I'm sure you're exaggerating the situation a lot. But I'm sympathetic to people who want to form groups with some standards. Because most t4 pugs are dreadful, and frustrating to the uttermost. Try this experiement... Next time you see a daily Nightmare, Thaumanova, or Shattered observatory, join a group with no specific requirements (i.e. "all welcome," "chill run," "casual run" etc), and see if you don't wipe at least half a dozen times.
I'm by NO means an elitist or an elite player. But people drive me out my mind with their terribleness. And I totally understand why somebody would just want to write LFGs that intimidate bad players from joining.
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@Rubberduckgillespie.9854 said:
@Fallesafe.5932 said:@Cyrin.1035 said:Should the GW series continue with an entirely new sequel? Or should GW 2 simply continue with expansions?Some want a new and more advanced graphics engine. Some want new or more races and professions to be explored. There are so many possibilities for a GW 3, but is GW 2 enough to expand on and if it is, what does that mean for its longevity?I personally would like to see GW 2 end its major releases after a third expansion rounding out a trilogy of expansions for GW 2. Then I want it to ultimately end its storyline on Living World Season 5 leading up to GW 3. It could set us up for GW 3 the way GW 1 did for 2.I want to see the graphics of GW 2 advance again as it did between 1 and 2. I want Expansion 3 to open us to new lands and stories but not necessarily so many years after the events of GW 2. New features, character models, wardrobe and weapon skin types, item tiers, game modes, game and visual style, ect.Yes, absolutely. GW2 is like that pork-chop bone that you've picked every last shred of meat off of. It was the best pork-chop I ever tasted for about 8 months. Then, I just had to accept that I was holding onto a bone. The game ended for me after I got all the items I wanted, and nothing could be upgraded any further (in terms of stats or utility). I just couldn't find any compelling reason to log on anymore. And, believe me, I went through mental-gymnastics to try to find some reason. The only thing I like about these games is getting better stuff (trulybetter stuff -- not just new skins). And I would never play any of the content for its own sake.So yea, bring on GW3, and give me another 8 months of fun! ;)You experienced everything this game has to offer in 8 months! I would love to know how you managed that.No, that's not what I said. There are a number of things I didn't do. But I have no interest in them, whatsoever, unless there are meaningful pieces of loot waiting for me on the other side. Raiding, to me, is a perfect example. There's no way I would put myself through the stress of working up that ladder for more than a year only to have the exact same armor I started with (but with ridiculous spikes on the helmet). If there was a whole new set of equipment that was to ascended what ascended was to exotic, I'd be eyeballs deep in this game right now. But there's not. So bring on GW3!
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@Cyrin.1035 said:Should the GW series continue with an entirely new sequel? Or should GW 2 simply continue with expansions?
Some want a new and more advanced graphics engine. Some want new or more races and professions to be explored. There are so many possibilities for a GW 3, but is GW 2 enough to expand on and if it is, what does that mean for its longevity?
I personally would like to see GW 2 end its major releases after a third expansion rounding out a trilogy of expansions for GW 2. Then I want it to ultimately end its storyline on Living World Season 5 leading up to GW 3. It could set us up for GW 3 the way GW 1 did for 2.
I want to see the graphics of GW 2 advance again as it did between 1 and 2. I want Expansion 3 to open us to new lands and stories but not necessarily so many years after the events of GW 2. New features, character models, wardrobe and weapon skin types, item tiers, game modes, game and visual style, ect.
Yes, absolutely. GW2 is like that pork-chop bone that you've picked every last shred of meat off of. It was the best pork-chop I ever tasted for about 8 months. Then, I just had to accept that I was holding onto a bone. The game ended for me after I got all the items I wanted, and nothing could be upgraded any further (in terms of stats or utility). I just couldn't find any compelling reason to log on anymore. And, believe me, I went through mental-gymnastics to try to find some reason. The only thing I like about these games is getting better stuff (truly better stuff -- not just new skins). And I would never play any of the content for its own sake.
So yea, bring on GW3, and give me another 8 months of fun! ;)
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@Umut.5471 said:Hi,I think an optional feature for this would be very useful when we need to access our tonics, food, utility items and toys quickly without searching for them in inventory.It can have 4 slots or more. And those slots should be keybind-able. Possible usage scenarios would help QoL a lot.For example if you have a detector item in your inventory, and you use it regularly for a quest you can put it to this item slot and you can use it via keyboard.Or if you wanna switch between instruments with keybinding, this will help a lot too. In raids, you can switch between food types easily, or you can just hit a key or key combination to refresh the buff. And many more QoL improvements...
That would be soooo sweet. I'd even buy this by the slot (like shared inventory spaces) if need be. Just make them movable around the screen, and hideable.
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@Tsakhi.8124 said:
@Fallesafe.5932 said:@feroxeu.7416 said:this is a carebear game. Anyone who says they don't feel rewarded are just numb due to the amount of rewards they recieve. Facts: You get rewarded for losing. You get rewarded for winning. You get rewarded for logging in.And it's all garbage. I wish I had a giant snow-shovel to throw it all into the delete-incinerator at the same time. This game absolutely showers you with trash while offering you nothing of any real value. If came up to you every day, and gave you a milk-crate full of ribbons, and colored drinking straws, and chewing gum, and number 2 pencils how long would it take before you started getting annoyed?laughsIn my case, I'd start making things from those items MacGyver style. Then again, you're looking at someone that is delighted to get leaves as presents. Heh.lol, that's an interesting answer. Teach me your ways. ;)
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@feroxeu.7416 said:this is a carebear game. Anyone who says they don't feel rewarded are just numb due to the amount of rewards they recieve. Facts: You get rewarded for losing. You get rewarded for winning. You get rewarded for logging in.
And it's all garbage. I wish I had a giant snow-shovel to throw it all into the delete-incinerator at the same time. This game absolutely showers you with trash while offering you nothing of any real value. If I came up to you every day, and gave you a milk-crate full of ribbons, and colored drinking straws, and chewing gum, and number 2 pencils how long would it take before you started getting annoyed?
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The RNG mount skins that everybody is freaking out about are a perfect example of my earlier point (i.e. that the game is not rewarding, and that skins don't matter). I decided to just go ahead and get all the mount-skins yesterday, because, why not? So the first one I got was the "Reforged Warhound." But I was disappointed to see that it runs like it has arthritic hips, and makes a top of the line gaming-machine freeze and hitch when it teleports... Not so impressive. But, SURELY, the other 30 mounts are pretty cool. right? So I settled on the flaming raptor, the frosty rabbit, the light-up skimmer, and the flaming griffon. And, in the end... it was a gigantic basket of, "WHO THE FUCK CARES?"
-The first problem, is that getting these mounts has no connection to actually playing the game.-The second problem is that these mounts add nothing but visual-clutter to what you already had to begin with-The third problem is that they literally CAUSE lag.
So, I ran past the bank, and saw everyone clustered in a group... showing off their new lag-machines to the "have nots." And it was literally embarrassing. This, in a nutshell, is the entire game right now... people working for nothing (e.g. skins), in order to show off their nothing to strangers who don't care.
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@Jordan.5930 said:Do you feel Guild Wars 2 is rewarding?
NO. I've started threads on this issue, and left countless replies to the effect that 'NO, GW2 is NOT REWARDING!' And it's the number one thing killing the game for me right now. It took me about six months to completely max out two characters. And now, I don't have a fucking thing to do. When people talk about "fashion wars," I want to reach through my monitor and slap the stupid out of them. SKINS AND DYES ARE UTTERLY MEANINGLESS! Why would anybody subject themselves to a year of stomach-acid, learning to raid... just to pop out, on the other side, exactly the same as they started? Or... once you've bought your ad infinitum, and endless mist's omnipotion... why would you bother running fractals with terrible PUGs for relics you have nothing to spend on??
THIS GAME IS NOT REWARDING!!! And people who would LOVE to keep playing are quitting because of it. I have nothing that I want in this game. And I'm sorry, I'm not going to play it for the "joy" of the animations, or the absurd, horribly-acted story.
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@inriver.9813 said:Since there is no way to reach you other than than through a forum (i dislike public drama myself) -> here is my first (well, second, i discouraged someone from buying PoF in another thread 10 minutes ago) and likely last post:
I have used an amount of real life money on your gemstore that my friends/colleagues would consider a sign of addiction. I have gifted gemstore stuff for other players and financed my guildies with less disposable income to obtain HoT and PoF. There has been a slow decline in quality since vanilla GW2. Now with your latest patch demonstrating that i am clearly not one of the customers you care about (not to mention your recent shenanigans in WvW on SoS), I will no longer be making any purchases from your gemstore and will be gradually withdrawing from the game (i unfortunately still have good friends in game so i cant do an abrupt disappearance).
I hope the people whom you supported through this patch make up for the income loss.
Yea, ok. See you in 2 weeks.
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@Freakshow.1809 said:I'm one of those no lifers that drops big money each payday on GW2. Out of slight embarrassment I won't mention the amount i've dropped since release but it's a lot to say the least.Anet, I still have some faith in you to come around. You are usually very good about communication with the community and making changes based on feedback. But I need to ask...
Did you really think players would be okay with this? I mean I know you guys had meeting discussing this before it's implementation. Did anyone ever bring up...
"Do you think the majority players will be okay with this?""Are you sure this doesn't seem like we're taking advantage of their support?""Is this addition going to make the game better for the community or worse?"
I'm personally struggling to understand why you guys choose to go in this direction. If find it difficult that you would choose to go with this kind of marketing knowing your reputation for not wanting to be apart of the norm. Instead of being a WoW copy cat, you chose to try to be your own game. Instead of trying to take the ideas of other games in the genre you tried to come up with your own, very unique way. Your mounts are like nothing else any other game has to offer, no just a mere speed boost but unique and adds to core gameplay.
What changed Anet? Why Are you suddenly turning away from your core defining unique gameplay philosophies to follow this Lootbox Trend? You were so much better than that. What happened?
Because they understand their players very well. If 100 people are in the market for these skins, then:
-50 will just buy them and not care.-30 will buy them with some apprehension.-10 will scream bloody murder, and buy them anyway.-8 will vow to quit, but come back in a week, and buy them.-and 2 will actually boycott the gem-store or quit.
So, they made a great decision here.
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SERIOUSLY! When I found out about this move, I spit my pacifier across the room, and literally broke my rattle banging it on the table. I'm SOO triggered right now. I cant even tell you.
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@troops.8276 said:
@Fallesafe.5932 said:Yea, this is "pay to win." Because re-skinning your mount is how you win the game apparently.Howdoyou 'win' the game though? Getting all the things you want?There's no gameplay advantage/imperative to re-skinning your mounts. It's 100% discretionary, and cosmetic.
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Yea, this is "pay to win." Because re-skinning your mount is how you win the game apparently.
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Consider removing the soulbind on use flag on the 24- and 28-slot bags. It just doesn't make any sense to restrict those items when all 20-slot or lower bags are account bound or still tradable after use. For a game that's supposed to be very alt-friendly, this goes against one of the core features of GW2. And as long as they will have this flag, I won't even consider making them.
I think it's pathetic how Anet is so meticulous about making sure you can't reap any real benefit from the money and work you put into crafting. ~500 gold to level a skill to grandmaster. But can you sell anything that you make? NOPE! Because that would be gold in your own account instead of dollars in their gem-store.
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@hedich.4283 said:As a guy that plays alot of classes and i love to 100% everything, having to watch/listen to the same dialog over and over again is starting to get on my nerves and i am at a point where i cant do it anymore and it really puts me off in playing the game, going for achievements is a pain when you cant skip.
Can we PLEASE get an option to skip dialog if we already watched/listened to it? pretty please? now with POF around the corner i really hope you guys had this in mind..
Oh God, PLEASE!
PLEASELEASE
I absolutely can't stand listening to the ridiculous story. Please let me skip it.
Can't buy gems.
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Is anybody else experiencing this problem? I'm trying to buy gems with my debit card, but getting declined over and over for no apparent reason:1) The money is there.2) The card is not blocked (I called twice to confirm this).3) The card info and personal info is all entered correctly.
I've made many of these purchases in the past, and never had this issue before. I've been declined 6 or 7 times tonight. Is it just me?