Lottie.5370

> @"Steve The Cynic.3217" said:

> > @"Lottie.5370" said:

> > > @"Steve The Cynic.3217" said:

> > > > @"Aaralyna.3104" said:

> > > > Karmic retribution is not karma itself. It is a buff you will have forever whenever you enter that specific map and it boosts karma gained in said map.

> > >

> > > No, it doesn't boost karma gained. It causes defeated enemies to drop karma consumables.

> >

> > Without the buff you get 0 karma per kill.

> > With the buff you get x>0 karma per kill.

> >

> > This is a boost to overall karma gained.

>

> Toe May Toe / Toe Mah Toe.

>

> The effect is that you gain more karma, but the mechanism isn't "+5% / +10% / +15% karma gains", which is how I'd normally read "boosts karma gained". In particular, KR doesn't affect the karma awarded for heart completion.

Where does it say ~~Karka ~~ karma *gains*?


> @"Magnus.7108" said:

> Heya, would a pretty experienced guy (been playing nearly since the launch of the game with some breaks in between) fit into your guild? I mainly play warrior but recently leveled up necro and been playing reaper :P

Of course, several of us have also been playing since launch! I will contact you later when I am online :)

> @"Steve The Cynic.3217" said:

> > @"Aaralyna.3104" said:

> > Karmic retribution is not karma itself. It is a buff you will have forever whenever you enter that specific map and it boosts karma gained in said map.

>

> No, it doesn't boost karma gained. It causes defeated enemies to drop karma consumables.

Without the buff you get 0 karma per kill.

With the buff you get x>0 karma per kill.

This is a boost to overall karma gained.

We are now looking for 2 players for our raiding group: ideally DPS players, with one also being able to play either Druid, BS or Chronomancer. We have players covering all support roles, but it would be nice to switch roles around sometimes.

Starter skins, sure. Cultural armor, no.

Edit: However I think things are fine as they are. I am drowning in transmutation charges, but perhaps that is because I play a decent amount of pvp/wvw. People are given free transmutation charges each month and they drop pretty regularly from map completion (100% chance from cities and starter zones).

A group of us finished the Deepstone fractal and got an endless loading screen when porting back to the hub. Now we all have 2-5k ping after relogging and there is 5-10 second lag inside the fractal hub when trying to change fractal scale or enter a fractal. Seems to be fine outside of FotM, we have all tried relogging. Anyone else have this issue right now?

Hey, we are a guild called [Nom]. We raid Sunday and Thursday 19:45-22:00 and have raided together for several months now. We typically clear wing 1&4 and Escort, and are working on clearing other wings. We have a casual attitude.

We are looking for any player that can ideally play 2 (or more) of the following roles:

-Druid

-Heal Renegade

-Alac Renegade

-Firebrand (Quickness, Heal)

-BS

-Condi DPS (Mirage, Scourge, FB pref.)

-Power DPS

You can buy digital card gems online from *official* retailers.

I had this issue after moving countries, it fixed once I correctly updated my location. I know this probably isn't the issue for most people here but it may help someone :D

I found if you don't click reset right after you die, but instead wait to be ported to the last unlocked checkpoint, about 30 seconds later it will port you back to the start. I know this isn't working as intended, but it's a way around it.

> @"Cat Warrior.9240" said:

> > @"IndigoSundown.5419" said:

> > > @"Cat Warrior.9240" said:

> > > > @"Alphonse Constant.2394" said:

> > > > As the title says, if you block players for whatever reason, they can:

> > > > * see your online status,

> > > > * see what area you are currently in,

> > >

> > > Wait, what now? Okay, I think this whole thread might've drifted away from the originial topic by now? I don't know about that. But what I _do_ know, is that blocked players, _cannot_ see you online nor know your location _unless_ they've friended you or are literally right next to your toon in Divinity's Reach. There is a blocked list, yes, but there isn't a "These-people-have-me-blocked" list, right? Unless, I completely misunderstood the OP, here, which I probably did.

> > > Oh and this might've already been discussed, sorry 'bout that, I merely skimmed through the thread.

> > >

> >

> > As long as a player knows your account or character name, they can "friend" you whether you've blocked them or not.

>

> Hurm. That's what I thought. It's just that the OP worded their statements quite- strange? What I gathered from their statement, was that as soon as someone blocks another, the blocked would be able to see the blocker's location and status just like the friends list. Which isn't true, _unless_ the blocked has the blocker on their friends list. Which was my point.

She is referring to targeted harassment, as in, the person knows you and has you on their friends list and can still see all your info despite you blocking them.

> @"MikeG.6389" said:

> -Decorations in the home instance. Also the ability to place and move the nodes you unlock there.

10000 times yes. I haven't visited my own home instance for years, we just tunnel all our resources into one guildie and raid their's every day. It doesn't feel personal or homey and I want a reason to spend time there. XD

-Build Templates

-Cats in my guild hall

-Build Templates!

-Actual Player Housing - that you can decorate like guild halls

-Build Templates!!!

-Underwater Rework

-BUILD. TEMPLATES. It's pretty much in place with the 3 pre-made pvp builds, why can't you let us save our own? T_T

-A fun new fractal

-To save the Princess from Lord Vanquish

> @"Daddicus.6128" said:

> > @"kharmin.7683" said:

> > > @"Daddicus.6128" said:

> > > And I contend that THIS is the reason for many of the objections to this idea. "I had to do it, so so should you."

> > >

> > > My contention is that the game is dying unless ANet can somehow generate new revenue.

> > >

> > > Now, they already know how many new players are joining the community of players. And that number is obviously declining. So, not only do they need new revenue, they need to acquire it from old players. Other than new content (which just got a lot harder to produce), this means new sales of items.

> > Obviously declining? Where is your evidence? Where are the facts? If this is determined by your observation, then this is pure conjecture.

> >

>

> Layoffs, of course. You don't lay off a large percentage of your workforce unless you're short on money.

Because they had staff working on other projects. Not because GW2 is struggling. GW2 is not struggling.

This is a lazy and pointless idea.

> @"Keefe.3821" said:

> . Also, we have to pay cash to transfer. They take my money but punish me for PAYING for a service they are giving.

You can use in-game gold.

> @"MoriMoriMori.5349" said:

> > @"Lottie.5370" said:

> > There is NO down side to you showing your status as invisible to people you have blocked. If you have blocked them, you don't want to communicate with them and you probably don't want them to see where you are, it leaves you open to being trolled and harassed further. This doesn't mean they can't still see you if you happen to be in the same place at the same time, but it means you can freely play and communicate with other people and your actual friends without having to worry about that one person trying to ruin your experience.

> Unfortunately it won't solve a thing. All they need to do is to create a new free account and use it to track you. So there hardly is a solution, except for you to ignore them and wait until they'll get bored. At least, with current implementation. If there would be a setting which would prevent anybody to freely add you to their friendlist, or there would be set of properties you could use to fine-tune to whom you want your location to be shown, and to whom it shouldn't be shown (like, show it to mutual friends (may be even only specific friends), don't show it to those who simply added you to their list, without you adding them etc) - that would be a solution you need. But that implies re-work of the current thing, and Anet is very unwilling of any deep QoL reworks.

Then why even have a block system in place in the first place? Right? What even is this response? People are just asking for something to be put in place to help stop being harassed and you're shooting it down because... why? how does this negatively impact ANYONE?

Free accounts can't access half of the game.

We finally got that 15% cheaper waypointing. ~~Nowwecanallberich!~~

I can't wait :D

I can finally make my dream of a SAB themed jumping puzzle in my guild hall a reality! Gotta get them furniture coins :3

> @"Nokomis.5076" said:

> > see your online status,

> Yes, but nothing bad because they can't message you anyway.

>

> > see what area you are currently in,

> Pnly if you have them on your friend list as well. Try it with a friend. He should have you as friend, you blocked him. He shouldn't see the map you're currently in. If your friend does, file a bug ticket.

>

> > join your party if you are advertising in LFG

> Just kick him. If he continues joining, report him for harassing.

>

> > stand next to you and wave at you

> Uh... and? If he just waves, let him. If he spams skills to flash your screen, report him for harassing.

>

You are forgetting the impact that this has on a person's mental state. They can see what area you are in REGARDLESS of them being on a friends list or not. When someone is added to your block list they are removed from your friend's list. Try blocking a friend and unblocking them: they are added to followers after.

Reporting for harassment does not solve the immediate issue, and these things ruin the player experience especially if this is a long term thing.

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> You do know why they would be valued low right?

> Some people feel harrassed when people look or wave at them.

THIS.

It is one example, however: I had an abusive ex-boyfriend that I played the game with. Whenever I tried to get away from him I would block him, however he could still see which map I was in and he would go there and follow me around whilst spamming emotes (/cry, /wave) on me. I felt like I could not get away from him. The only way for me to play the game was to play as invisible and not be able to access guild chat, or talk to anyone. And the point of GW2 for me has always been to play socially. I ended up having to buy another account just to be able to play without being harassed. I even contacted support about it and there was NOTHING they could do other than tell me to block him and ignore him, essentially.

There is NO down side to you showing your status as invisible to people you have blocked. If you have blocked them, you don't want to communicate with them and you probably don't want them to see where you are, it leaves you open to being trolled and harassed further. This doesn't mean they can't still see you if you happen to be in the same place at the same time, but it means you can freely play and communicate with other people and your actual friends without having to worry about that one person trying to ruin your experience.

They reminded me more of the Gods tbh. The staff/shortbow/hammer definitely feel very Melandru - green and tree/leafy. Blue - Dwayna, Pink - Lyssa (the scepter even has two female faces on it), Darker Green - Grenth, Light - Kormir, Red - Balthazar.

I've been playing a Mender Aurashare D/Wh Tempest in PvP and it feels decent enough, it's a lot of healing and utility and great vs condi. It hits like a damp potato though, except for it can easily stack 25 might to allies (using might blasts and wh 4 in fire) and air wh 5 does a ton of damage and vulnerability if you aim it right.

I've been running warhorn because of the easier access to extra auras and the condi cleanse and water field in water for the extra healing, and mainly to provide a ton of might to allies. The CC is arguably better than focus, Gale is a nice knockdown but it's on a long cooldown (40 seconds), Cyclone is on a much shorter cooldown (25s) and is AoE, it can pull multiple foes together into a damage spike. Comet is also only a daze, warhorn water 4 is a heal, condi cleanse and knockback.

Seems like the main plus points of focus are the two big utility skills - Swirling Winds and Obsidian Flesh. Swirling Winds' need is negated with Warhorn 4 + "Aftershock!", since a reflect is more damage than destroying a projectile. Obsidian Flesh is pretty neat though, it's defintely harder playing without it, though I usually slot mistform in that case. Stomping is pretty easy with earth 5 for the blind, and mistform is shorter duration which is better for contesting points. However, you can still use skills during obsidian flesh.

Seems like Warhorn is better vs high condi and Focus is better vs high power? Perhaps I'm horribly wrong, but I've had a lot of fun playing Tempest lately and I desperately wish it was good, and it's been fun trying different weapons.

Basically wondering on peoples' thoughts of running warhorn/focus, and which is better.

> @"Shiny.1638" said:

> can I raid if I have just exotic gear?

yes, of course! as long as you have the "correct" set up :) we can help you towards asc armor.

> @"DanAlcedo.3281" said:

> * Tempest got buffed alot.

>

D...Did you miss the 759984 nerfs Tempest has gotten or...??

I wish they'd do this for my country too, I have a weird addiction to opening chests. xD