shysaursoft
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I think people farm it for karma and experience. I've seen people go from level 1 to 80, using only the Queensdale train. On purpose.
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I think people farm it for karma and experience. I've seen people go from level 1 to 80, using only the Queensdale train. On purpose.
Yup definitely two posts today.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en-gb/ne...-repair-costs-and-hello-to-free-trait-resets/
LiveSpartan235
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No more armor repair costs!!
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/say-goodbye-to-armor-repair-costs-and-hello-to-free-trait-resets/
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/say-goodbye-to-armor-repair-costs-and-hello-to-free-trait-resets/
shysaursoft
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I can get that, being a Diablo player. The farming/grinding, as is said countless times, isn't really the problem though.
Kos Luftar
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Account Bound and Removing Restrictions are separate. This means one more blog coming today.
The_Player
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I'm sorry, I don't see anything about spirits here.
Kos Luftar
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Kinda strange the whole community gets penalized because of champ trains.
Kos Luftar
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My initial post was not a reply to you. I just posted about 2 blog posts coming today. Don't know why you thought I was saying they would have anything to do with spirits.
Knive answered your question above.
Ignore Kos, he's in a bad mood because Canadian parliament passed a ban on stripping nude, slathering yourself in maple syrup and riding a moose through the streets. At least when it's not hockey season.
Kos Luftar
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Fak you.
shysaursoft
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I hope removing repair costs means they might up the PvE difficulty.
Kos Luftar
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A solid foundation blog post is probably about new tutorials for starting characters.
What do you guys think? Start the speculation.
What do you guys think? Start the speculation.
Its too bad they just don't do a rule of diminishing returns. Keep doing the same 5 events 100x a day? Reduce the gold/xp gained each time (25%, 50%, 75%) until you get none within the 24 hour reset window.
That way it at least promotes people actually going other places and doing other events.
That way it at least promotes people actually going other places and doing other events.
That was what I originally thought, but Miktar may be on to something. What if they're referring to the mechanics that make up the foundation of gameplay, squashing stats and upping the difficulty to make the game harder?
The last time we were discussing the train, Peck chimed in that he dislikes DR mechanics.
I think promoting event chaining for a multiplier effect would be better.
That's actually what I did riding (my moose) to work this morning.
The_Player
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Oh well, didn't see, sorry for that. And thanks for answer. Is our guild still alive? Can I get an invite by any chance?
The funny thing is, just being account-bound makes Ascended gear more valuable. Now I am motivated to actually get some weapons, because they'll be swappable. On the one hand this extends the game for me because I actually want to craft some gear now. On the other hand I didn't need it extended and holding out has made me tons of money. Curse you convenience!!!!!
Nerfing champion loot silver across the board is drastic. I wonder if there are corresponding reward changes coming. The mention of this is a good opportunity to voice my idea about open world gold rewards, which I will post shortly.
Nerfing champion loot silver across the board is drastic. I wonder if there are corresponding reward changes coming. The mention of this is a good opportunity to voice my idea about open world gold rewards, which I will post shortly.
Loved that.
Sorry you never really got an answer, a lot of stuff's going on. Ranger Spirits have been improved from release and are viable in dungeons and PvP (at one point they had even become dominant and were nerfed back slightly). I can't expound more than that, my ranger is level 20.
well then, fuck that noise
i still <3 u doctor bon
You will like my idea.
A Solid Foundation is more than likely about the new PvP reward system. They've already mentioned in the past that the system is going to be another step in preparing PvP for additional game types. Then there's the fact they're going to prepare some type of league/tournament system that there already was a CDI for weeks ago.
Also, no other posts this week touched primarily on PvP so that's probably the blog post that will give them their main discussion point for Ready Up tomorrow.
Edit: Also, wasn't one of the things people wanted was for Champ Trains to be less rewarding? Outside of removing them from Queensdale, you'd want them to adjust things so that it wasn't so lucrative despite being so low on the scale of easy to difficult activities.
Of course, there's also the new issue that champs outside of Queensdale/Orr/Frostgorge might be considered even more of a waste of time by a majority of the community.
1. Very much so.
2. Absolutely. Post your username (name.####) and you'll be invited asap
With the free trait reset and the other trait changes they added I'm surprised they don't have a build saving feature announced yet. I can't really see it fitting into the other blog posts based on the titles...
Also, it's kinda funny they announced the free trait resets in two different blog posts.
Also, it's kinda funny they announced the free trait resets in two different blog posts.
Character name is also totally fine.
I didn't feel like they were too disproportionately rewarding- they'd already been nerfed once and it felt pretty reasonable now. A solid, simple dungeon rotation was a better risk vs. reward unless you were totally unskilled or unwilling, and even the world-hopping train of daily rares beat it for a brief session of play. I didn't want anything but Queensdale's stopped in its tracks. Anything that rewards people for participating in the open world is good, and I'd prefer the unwanted side effects were dealt with rather than the reward lessened. However, I'm not abandoning the hope that doing this corresponds with some other changes to rewards in the open world... if not in this feature pack than at least longer-term. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense otherwise. Beyond the people taking full advantage (champ trains), the average person just gets less reward now for doing fun stuff.
I'm surprised at the backlash on the forums over the "nerf" to champion bags/event loot. Not only do we not know the full extent of the "nerf"(likely a few silver max), but they aren't taking into account the DECREASE in gold sinks(due to the wardrobe, accountbound, and removal of repair bills, etc.).
Being able to purchase ONE BL set and have use of it MULTIPLE times will save you a TREMENDOUS amount of gold. Assuming transmute charges are still 5 per 200 gems(and assuming a charge is PER slot, not a full outfit), that means:
800 gems outfit(one full outfit free)
200 gems 5 transmute charges(these are used for the second outfit)
=
1000 gems for ~2 FULL outfits(you'll be 5/6 via charges)
vs
2x800 gems outfit(2 full outfits free, no charges required)
=
1600 gems for 2 full outfits
So that's 600 gems right there. Once you start including potential stuff like high-end exotics(ex Infinite Light)...you could potentially be saving HUNDREDS of gold.
tl;dr: People are only focusing on the short term "zerg, farm, grind" and not on the "omg I'm actually saving money" long term benefits.
Don't get me wrong, I still want to see more balance for rewards(ideally ALL aspects of the game would be equally rewarding), but I just think it's funny the backlash we're seeing over a "nerf" to a braindead activity.
Being able to purchase ONE BL set and have use of it MULTIPLE times will save you a TREMENDOUS amount of gold. Assuming transmute charges are still 5 per 200 gems(and assuming a charge is PER slot, not a full outfit), that means:
800 gems outfit(one full outfit free)
200 gems 5 transmute charges(these are used for the second outfit)
=
1000 gems for ~2 FULL outfits(you'll be 5/6 via charges)
vs
2x800 gems outfit(2 full outfits free, no charges required)
=
1600 gems for 2 full outfits
So that's 600 gems right there. Once you start including potential stuff like high-end exotics(ex Infinite Light)...you could potentially be saving HUNDREDS of gold.
tl;dr: People are only focusing on the short term "zerg, farm, grind" and not on the "omg I'm actually saving money" long term benefits.
Don't get me wrong, I still want to see more balance for rewards(ideally ALL aspects of the game would be equally rewarding), but I just think it's funny the backlash we're seeing over a "nerf" to a braindead activity.
Ah don't get my above commentary wrong. As a net aspect of the changes in total it's barely a blip on my radar. They mean to discourage spending a majority of your playtime killing Champs repeatedly in sequence and an across-the-board profit nerf will do just that.
shysaursoft
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Seems all is not well over in FFXIV land. The upcoming patch is making some stalwarts waver:
And yet, I can't get them to try Guild Wars 2, because their friend told them that:
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So they won't play GW2, because it's "too grindy".
I don't even.
And yet, I can't get them to try Guild Wars 2, because their friend told them that:
....
So they won't play GW2, because it's "too grindy".
I don't even.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure they said that Gemstore bought skins wouldn't have the "charges" fees on them to transmute
The_Player
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Sheven.7408
Right, that will function like before, but in my example I'm trying to compare 2 full sets(ie: one will be the set that is "free" from the skins in the gem store pack, and the other will require transmute charges of those skins to apply - from the wardrobe).
Kos Luftar
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only true for wardrobes (town clothes) i think. probably still need charges for gem store armors on second use.
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LumpOfCole
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Next week has three blogposts on the same subject ("Facilitating Friendly Play")
I think the biggest change we're going to see is the great reworking of PvE servers and maybe even a District system - basically, every PvE zone is an Overflow by default, and then you can set them up for guilds to have their own 'Overflow' or whatever as well.
Around this shift, we're likely going to see a lot of other changes be announced to accommodate it. This means no more guesting to Blackgate to buy Obsidian Shards, but maybe fighting for the right to buy them again.
It's the only change big enough that I can see warranting three days of blog posts because a lot of systems would change to build around it.
I think the biggest change we're going to see is the great reworking of PvE servers and maybe even a District system - basically, every PvE zone is an Overflow by default, and then you can set them up for guilds to have their own 'Overflow' or whatever as well.
Around this shift, we're likely going to see a lot of other changes be announced to accommodate it. This means no more guesting to Blackgate to buy Obsidian Shards, but maybe fighting for the right to buy them again.
It's the only change big enough that I can see warranting three days of blog posts because a lot of systems would change to build around it.
Kos Luftar
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Last 3 posts will be about 1) how things were unfriendly without all the things they announced, 2) how things they added "fascilitate friendly play" and 3) how the future will be fascilitating even more friendliness.
Don't expect anything new from Peck.
Don't expect anything new from Peck.
With all the buzz around the next ReadyUp tomorrow being about the revamped PvP Rewards system, I can easily see the blog title continuing like "A Solid Foundation for a healthy and rewarded PvP community" or something along these lines. And after the blog, they will show the system in action on the ReadyUp stream. Something like with the new traits.
Of course, this is just my guess.
I'm with the others that a Solid foundation is related to PVP rewards and PVP Merging with PVE (same armor in and out of PVP)
I think adjustment to back end, performance/lag issues need to be addressed ASAP and not in a feature patch
Jest Chillin
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You guys are a riot, the preview headlines are all like the vaguest phrases one could hope to assemble with words
Mar 28 - The Stuff With That Thing Over There.
shysaursoft
Member
"A Solid Foundation"
A hundred new tooltips will be added, that highlight on first-display, the many important UI and game elements required to fully understand the complex game structure.
"It is our hope that by pointing out the painfully obvious, over and over, obsessively, new players will eventually realize they're playing game and hopefully, pay enough attention so as to not make themselves more useless than a wet fart in a wind storm" - Colin Jonaathansaonson.
*Artists's mspaint rendition
As for Mr. Authority's mmo thread - welp, not going to touch that thing with a 10 foot pole. Dude is basically looking for a fight, and just wants a whine-in wankfest so... I dunno, he can feel loved? I don't know what the goals there are, but it's certainly not "constructive discussion".
A hundred new tooltips will be added, that highlight on first-display, the many important UI and game elements required to fully understand the complex game structure.
"It is our hope that by pointing out the painfully obvious, over and over, obsessively, new players will eventually realize they're playing game and hopefully, pay enough attention so as to not make themselves more useless than a wet fart in a wind storm" - Colin Jonaathansaonson.
*Artists's mspaint rendition
As for Mr. Authority's mmo thread - welp, not going to touch that thing with a 10 foot pole. Dude is basically looking for a fight, and just wants a whine-in wankfest so... I dunno, he can feel loved? I don't know what the goals there are, but it's certainly not "constructive discussion".
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