LSD.4673

When they started buffing underutilised weapons last year instead of nerfing overtuned ones, it became pretty obvious they didn't really care about the state of damage output. Each set of e-specs from each expansion has been more powerful than the last, and the blurred lines of class identity into this "every class can provide" thing has led us to this point. It's a core part of the game, and even if they bothered to dedicate resources they, evidently, don't have to sorting this, the end result would be people not wanting to play. Can you imagine the outrage if you had to time your quick/alac for burst phases? This is the way things are and will stay.

The added minor bonuses and advantages are the only thing that makes WvW meaningful. The claimed buff, gliding, shrine bonuses, being able to escape behind walls, defensive siege, tactivators. Even things like hills being able to treb south-east tower. As long as the bonuses aren't over the top and can be countered, they should be welcome.

They're the piddly little ones. The ones we used to get from WvW dailies seem to be identical to the ones OP is on about. Now we get auto-consume ones from the astral daily thing ("up to 4") if you set it to PvP/WvW. Not sure how big they are. Probably piddly piddlers as well. EDIT: Wait what the hell, they're all the same. They're all worth 250. I feel conned. What is real?

They should just add a visual indicator that there's a group in an LFG tab without having to click it to find out. It's dumb enough that you have to click through all these tabs, but the added cooldown if you do more than 5 consecutive clicks in LFG tabs really takes the cake.

I've finally been bored enough with the escaping benderboys to figure out what counts as dolly escort participation because of this. If you follow them till the 5th tick of dolly protection pops, you're considered part of the event and will get the +5 min when they reach destination. So that's 4secs, 4secs, 4secs, 4secs, then as soon as last one pops, you can stop playing the participation game. That's ~17 seconds of tapping W to follow an NPC. Joy. They'd be less annoying to fight without the boon spam/invuln. Survive the burst? They run. Get them low? They run. Don't stand on their AOEs? They run. And with all the boons you can't pin them down. Meanwhile just trying to do so is overly risky. Eugh.

This is literally the reason they are hated. You do one DRM, "oh, ok, that was a bit repetitive but it was ok i guess". Then you do the next DRM, and it's the exact same thing. Then again. And again. And again. Even story-wise there was nothing to it. It was just "the first thing" done over and over again. And if you wanted to max IBS mastery, you sure as kitten had to do them over and over again even more. It's bad. And the fact it was used as the only story backdrop for the entire Jormag and Primordus storyline is what puts icing on the cake. Awful.

It's an issue of Catalyst. No one wants to fight them, which is a great laugh when they congregate out of boredom.

Speaking of: has anyone ever noticed how the last level does...nothing? It's meant to be like PvE mastery where you use glide endurance while gliding until the last level's unlocked, then it's only when leaning in any direction. But level 4 unlocks that. So 5 does nothing.

I also miss the people waiting on camps and vets to spawn. You could bag a good 5 AFKs without taking a hit that way. Now it's been replaced with the guys desperately trying to dps the dolyak down while you take them to pound town. It's just not the same.

Did a portal really make you go searching for this topic? kitten.

Sorry but that is verboten. Taters should be mashed, boiled or otherwise put in stews.

Ah yes, i hate it when my internet throttles my frame rate. I tried linking up another router in CrossFire but it just disconnected me.

What are you doing to elicit hate mail? Even the maddest 1v1er won't do much more than a few /whispers. Did you run over the guy's dog?

Though technically, a time before mounts, cos they only binned them at PoF's release. Bring back Death From Above!

Still very odd though, because A) QFB has been busted for years -- it was the balance dev's pet class -- and hasn't had any real balance changes besides flip-flopping on castable mantras; and B) because the change was entirely undocumented.

The sad reality is that HoT was rushed and unfinished, too. The dropped, or unresolved, plots, are still pretty unforgivable. Some of the few genuinely interesting parts of the game's story -- the Pale Tree, Malyck, the Nightmare Court, and how it all fits together -- were unceremoniously "left on the cutting room floor". And yet HoT is the best the company has put out, with each expansion gradually worse. People appreciate the great parts of HoT, and can see the decline. That's why they compare.

I can't remember a thing about Rift's housing. I think i gave it a quick go and didn't think much of it. But i remember LotR:O's well, and that was by far the best system i've ever seen. It was great getting trophies from playing and having them in your home. It had the best emote system, too, bar none.

What build is that where the clip starts and he's not plummeting into the floor?

I love that "actioned" is just part of common parlance now. No, wait, i hate it even more. Why not "mastered"? Surely a GM should have a stack of reports that need mastering, not "actioning".

Did you say "the ability to open these chests dotted around this specific map"? Or did you say "the ability to receive some kind of boon, also on this specific map"?

ANet needs to strategize the synergy in its current media presence paradigm with a pivot towards emerging AI and LLM. Ergo. Vis a vis. Concordantly.

That's incredible: that A) it works that way (why in the christ would it revive you?), B) that they banned you for that, and C) that they did all that without bothering to figure out how you did it or how to fix it. Pretty well sums up ArenaNet's approach to WvW/the game in general.

Mastery of the mastery system. You did it, well done, pat on the back.

Cos dealing with potential refunds is more of a concern than their cornerstone gamemode.

Or...give everywhere air shrine fall damage resist slam ability. PS: bring back Warrior Death From Above.