Deimos.4263

It should take a huge amount of effort and nobody seems to be disputing that. But the OP is correct that it's also a bit excessive. One advantage over the PvP track though -- you can do it in the off-season, as WvW has no seasons.

Secret GM hangout.

Keep the meter, remove the ability to kick? Somewhat tongue-in-cheek post to make people think.

One thing I have heard from time to time is "Even though you generate it the DPS isn't *yours*. It's public information about you."

By that logic even if you created it, the group is not yours either. It's just about you. Don't like someone's DPS? Fine, but you can't kick them. It's very much a learn to play issue. Like...literally, learn to *play*. You know, the thing where you're happy socializing with other humans.

(Yes obviously there are issues with implementing this, calm down. But it would eliminate people getting kicked for low DPS...or any other reason...and it demonstrates that the DPS meter is not the problem. People are the problem, both those underperforming and those intolerant.)

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> but this is a game! I don't want to do planning and stuff, I just want to have fun.

> Sorry but I just can't comprehend that mind set.

Are you suggesting people should plan all year long for a winter's day skin? That's quite ridiculous, it should be obtainable within the period of the festival itself with a moderate amount of effort. This thing is comically over-valued and always has been.

> @"Malafaia.8903" said:

> In places like Istan this happens even with warthogs, lol. Really frustrating.

Warthogs in this game are frighteningly OP.

The game is horribly broken! The festive lamps in the pvp lobby have BOWS and the ones in my guild hall do not. :(

Tips:

1. Breathe. No seriously, control your breathing irl to stay unstressed and focused.

2. Feet flat on the floor. This will help relax you as well.

3. Bind a small key to jump, don't use spacebar. It's a big floppy key and you need precise, quick taps.

4. Run out waaay farther than you think you need to on the first present jump, or you'll fall short.

5. Learn to move forward by holding down the mouse buttons. It's much faster to release and stop your forward movement; you'll have better control.

6. Literally everything Danikat said.

It would be nice to remove other character models. Even if you can see just fine, I often fall when someone right in front of me falls. Monkey see, monkey do.

> @"FOE.2041" said:

> i went to make a tea and when come back i see this

Tea is made from sylvari, you monster.

> @"AngelLovesFredrik.6741" said:

> My biggest issue is that the only form of viable mitigation is mitigation. Blocks, evades and invuln. These skills are often packed into the same classes.

>

> Can't lower the damage without lowering the sustain, and we all know that's not going to happen.

Vitality and toughness used to be a mitigating factors as well, but with damage this high it's largely irrelevant. Run out of blocks/evades/invuln, and you die.

Yes, in a recent patch they've reintroduced a retro-bug that messes with the harp timing on octaves. It's happened a few times in the past. In my opinion it's a conspiracy with the Wintersday Bell Choir Union.

Yes! I'm tired of buying new equipment everytime I play PvP. (Just kidding.)

Bell Choir is actually harder for those active in the GW2 music community, because the notes are bizarrely different than all the other instruments...including bells. I'm glad they got rid of the annoying bit at the end this year to speed things up. If they really want to improve bell choir...give us the good Wintersday bell! The one in Bell Choir sounds horrible and I hate hearing it.

Total cost is down from previous years. I paid a ridiculous sum to get Winter's Presence. (And I already had a stack and a half of snowfall runes, because I used to teach people how to tank the fall off of the Dwayna statue in the pre-glider days...I made a killing off of that.)

That said, it should *not* be the case. It's a fun holiday skin; it *shouldn't* take a ridiculous amount of grind to acquire. Why anet does things this way, and continues to do so, is unfathomable.

Confirmed it works. Thank you.

All I know is one team has 522 points and the other two have 14 combined so...time to wander around and kill dolyaks or something. How is this fun?

For core guardian, flexibility and...simplicity. A lot of other classes/specs have your skills changing how they function in various modes (reaper, engie, revenant, firebrand, ele, etc.). Core guardian skills don't change unless you swap weapons, so there's a lot less to sort out.

Do the hard mode of the jumping puzzle early and often, and sell the wintersday gifts unopened. It starts becoming less worth it as the supply of wintersday gifts on the trading post grows. If that's not something you can do reliably, try bell choir.

They look nice and will look good for standing around and group photos, but music guilds will be sad they don't actually play anything. :P

Even though it was "Festive Mode" we couldn't finish the final boss. I mean that's *partially* because we don't listen and went in with five...and then two of us disconnected. But because the mobs don't heal or chase and you can heal/respawn, you can (eventually, it'd be nice if it scaled down to save some time...) solo everything but the final boss. Yes we're filthy casuals.

There appears to be a bug when attempting to scribe Freezie's Heart. I have everything required to make it, but the scribing window claims I have 0 snow makers. (We have 11 unplaced snowmakers in the guild at present.)


My RNG for drops sucks. But for the mystic forge, I am apparently blessed. (I think I'm up to 28 precursors forged, I've lost count.)

So there I was in Harathi, waiting with some guildies for some loud-mouthed giant centaur or something? I get bored easily and so there I was chatting away while pretty much ignoring things and using my Mystic Forge Conduit.

My friend says idly she's trying to make Bolt, so I switch to exotic swords and start "going" for Zap, feeling fairly confident that I'd get one...eventually. And I did, several dozen attempts in. Not my first pre by a long shot, but I pinged it, and she got very excited when I mailed it to her. But wait, there's more.

I had a few more exotic swords left, so I figure why not -- I'll forge them too. Bam, second Zap. My jaw dropped at that one; back to back precursors. It went to another friend.

Tons from the forge, bought a couple, none from drops.

Regardless of this specific incident (I don't believe I know either of the parties), people can and do spam and attempt to disrupt groups of music players with alarming frequency. The OP's suggestion to be able to block the audio of a specific player is a good one.