TinkTinkPOOF.9201

1. An actual dedicated team for WvW/PvP 2. A proper budget for said team to do more than change a few dmg numbers.

> @"Mithras.2805" said: > You are wrong in saying that this is the game mechanics. It is an underdeveloped system where you cannot write to people from another server. Because I'm sorry, but combining with blocking, and then changing to a friend just to write something to someone. Only the desperate are capable of this. And sorry, but for a handful of people you can talk to on WvW from other servers, there is a whole legion of people who only want to insult and spit their griefs on whispering. Both me and many people playing this game grew up of it and probably wish there was a system as described. This game is played not only by teenagers, but also by adult people who do not want anyone to call them the worst just for playing the game. It is impossible to write more clearly. A simple box asking if I want to receive a message or email in-game. I am to understand that by this a huge number of people would lose the sense of playing this game? It is a sacrifice I am ready to make. Probably not only me. Well, I also find it amusing and I am in my mid 30's. Most of us who are older have seen and experienced far, FAR worse in real life and things like this we just brush off with a chuckle. As for him being wrong....He is not, it is a game wide issue. His point is not that it doesn't happen in WvW or that you are not having the issue in WvW, but rather no one pays attention to the WvW section and getting action taken on the suggestion will probably be better in general discussion. Not saying it doesn't belong here or if you wish to leave it here, that is fine, but I do agree with him that you will probably have a better chance in the other sections.

> @"Nordic Natedog.4360" said: > I'm not saying people complain about my build. I'm saying I hear people complaining about one build or another. I also see a ton of people just hanging out on siege when there is very few foes. Oh, I see 2 thieves better get on the cannon type mentality. I only posted the video of game play when you don't choose that kind of mentality. > > FYI, Even against full comps I do significant damage as I'm not running merely burn guard with my setup. It is full on hybrid (cele and grieving). The point I took from it was not burn DH, but that most people are bots, don't care to learn and get trolled by easy to counter builds. Solo I run power DH, but a few weeks ago we had some people defending SMC vs a group, no one would push out, people were being melted on walls etc etc. I swap to burn DH, jump in the middle of them and they mostly ignore me, sit in my aoes and I down probably 1/4 of them SOLO. That has NOTHING to do with DH and everything to do with having simple awareness, I should have been downed in seconds. Keep in mind, they had a number of burn DH them selves, so it's not like I had some special build they didn't. The most annoying part is I have done this often, get huge downs in a group of 30-40, we will have 20ish AND NO ONE WILL PUSH. And on the off chance some do....It's like wet noodles, like how, how do you even make a build that does so little dmg? Then I remember what the dev for arcdps said and that was most people do not have anything close to a build but rather random traits and gear sets.

Though most has been said....Set yourself to offline, you can't get PMs from anyone then. They can only mail you, mail is game wide and open for anyone not on your block list, because not being able to send mail to someone offline, would kinda kill the point. However, you can block them as soon as they do, if they are taking the effort to mail you after a fight, you should smile, because you annoyed them enough to not just PM you, which is super easy, but for them to take the time to block you, PM you, find out you are offline, then open mail, type out your name and send you QQ msg... Maybe it's the troll in me, but those are highlights of my day and always give me a good laugh. Another thing, if you block someone and they get on another account to PM/Mail you again, is considered harassment, as you have already taken the effort to block them and they are "block evading", which anet will take action on, so if people are doing this, be sure to screen cap both accounts and msgs and open a ticket, not just in game report. Another note; some of the trolls I have run into have become in game friends, and some people I have trolled as well. Some people really are salty, others are just doing it because they are bored. So don't write everyone off because they might troll around or might have had a bad day and are just venting to some random person in a game. I had this reminder myself a few months ago when someone PMed me in anger, and BMed me after I lost a 1vsX with them. I shot something back at them and we went back and forth but I kept it calm. After a few mins, they actually said they really should not have lashed out etc etc, I said it's all good, everyone has rough days, we dueled a bit and now they are on my friends list. That aside, having the option for "contacts only" I don't think would hurt anything and would allow you to still send and receive to people you might know on other servers/links, and would work across PM and mail. It would also help with spam gold sellers etc etc in town, I can't really see much of a negative on at least giving the option.

> @"Svarty.8019" said: > ~~The EB Breakout event NPCs aren't spawning at all now.~~ > > ~~Red capped everything we have and now there's no Siegeraiser to help ... well I suppose it's not so important as we don't have five people anyway. ;..( ~~ > > > > ~~... reminds me of when [Captain Placeholder]( ) disappeared.~~ > > > Please ignore, he finally appeared! :D What is funny is in core, he was amazing, powerful, took forever to kill, and was pretty much a 100% chance to take the tower, hell, in many cases he would cap the tower on his own if only a few defenders showed.....Now, he melts and often times never even makes it to a tower. That and when you are in the position to need it, there are not 5 people on the whole map. Just one more thing that has been left behind and forgotten.

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > @"TinkTinkPOOF.9201" said: > > > @"Veprovina.4876" said: > > > I don't see what this has got to do with mesmers... > > > > Mirage actually. Used to be able to glitch into stuff like this as well, the one I remember was using the sword ambush skill, there was at least one more, however I forget what it was. Ele conjured hammer used to (pretty sure was patched some time back) glitch you through tower doors, I think this one was patched after being around forever once a video of someone with an anet tag was shown using it to glitch past NWT gate and people got outraged on reddit about it. Then there was warclaw when first released, that dismounting and jumping on any class could do this as well, and even get over some walls, such as at hills and SMC. > > > > The number of bugs and glitches in this game that have never been fixed are.....Amazing. > > > > Oh, and if timed just right, though I have never been able to do it intentionally, I have had it happen twice when fighting someone and have seen it happen to one other person. On Guard, if you use JI, while an enemy goes into the portal, there seems to be a micro second phase where JI will actually port you through the enemy portal with them. > > Ah, cool. :) So basically most professions could do something like that. Then that means that no single profession is really at fault, more like the structures are glitchy, no? No. It's skills and utility that was never in mind when WvW was made, same with warclaw, all of which seemed to get little to no actual testing before release to live. I would blame it on this over the structure it self. Most classes can't since the warclaw fixes, right now it's Mes and Thief. Guard is, well more or less impossible to pull off when intending to do it, I have tried to do it for hours with someone I know from another server, I could never figure the timing out and I don't know of anyone who has made a claim to be able to do such. Mes I am not sure if the exploit still exists, I will have to dig for old videos and test out at some point. Ele I am like 99% sure was patched, but it required an anet employee getting caught on video abusing it and people getting mad about it for that to even happen. Thief like the video above I remember hearing about and seeing video of someone abusing it probably not even a few months after HoT release. If it's still possible on DD to do this, I would say this was without question the easiest one to pull off and pull off consistently.

> @"Veprovina.4876" said: > I don't see what this has got to do with mesmers... Mirage actually. Used to be able to glitch into stuff like this as well, the one I remember was using the sword ambush skill, there was at least one more, however I forget what it was. Ele conjured hammer used to (pretty sure was patched some time back) glitch you through tower doors, I think this one was patched after being around forever once a video of someone with an anet tag was shown using it to glitch past NWT gate and people got outraged on reddit about it. Then there was warclaw when first released, that dismounting and jumping on any class could do this as well, and even get over some walls, such as at hills and SMC. The number of bugs and glitches in this game that have never been fixed are.....Amazing. Oh, and if timed just right, though I have never been able to do it intentionally, I have had it happen twice when fighting someone and have seen it happen to one other person. On Guard, if you use JI, while an enemy goes into the portal, there seems to be a micro second phase where JI will actually port you through the enemy portal with them.

Welcome to like....2015?

> @"Masteis.9720" said: > Hi fellas, > > I know there are plently of QQ reviews about Guardians but I just wanted to share mine as well and I am going to keep it really short; > > I've mained Mesmer, to be honest, I do not have any problem with dealing a Guardian. If I take right actions like dodging skills or using right skills in right time etc. I can take down any class. I believe that mastering any class and playing it is the right the key. But, the thing i want to mention is that the attention you have to pay. > For example; as a Mesmer, I have to calculate every move. I cannot use my skills randomly, I need to use them in a correct situation. To success, I have to play smart. > And about Guardian; I just started to play with Guardian a few days ago. I just checked a meta build and never watched a single PvP guide. What I do is just laying down whatever trap I, and spaming F2 F3 and Sword 5 when I am low. I don't even select a target, I just push the buttons and try to survive while laying traps around. I have more win ratio than any other class now. > I am not trying to tell that Guardian's damage should be nerfed, I just wanted to point that Guardians shouldn't be a class that is really easy to play. > What time zone do you play in? I can try and meet you online in a custom match, you run this burn DH build and I will run a full melee power DH build, so I will have to stand next to you putting me at a huge disadvantage. Always interested in seeing this build, people always talk about it and this is the 3rd thread about it I am posting offering to fight vs the build....But no one ever accepts? I am like a low gold rank player, why does no one want to show off how powerful the build is?

If you are at all looking to actually get better at PvPing, you will need to. If you don't you will always only be reacting after something happens. If you know builds, skills, traits and what weapon sets tend to go with those, you can often tell what sort of fight, rotations and utility they will probbaly have on their skill bar. This lets you know all sorts of things, including if you want to swap to another build to counter, it also gives you an idea on what sort of stun breaks they might have, so you know what to bait out before bursting, it lets you know what CC or bursts to expect yourself etc etc. So having at least basic playing ability on all classes is very helpful, you don't even have to be good at them, just understanding how the class plays and what it is possible of doing as well as what it is weak to.

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> @"Sviel.7493" said: > Did they give any Alliance updates in those 12 years? He stated that there is only one tier left, so no, they didn't, still the same server links and not guild Alliances, which is the only thing that makes this post so believable.

> @"Sleepwalker.1398" said: > Are ppl using scourge minion build as bots in WvW? > I got this 1 guy to chase me off a cliff to his death and then 2nd time made him run after me into murder gate npc who slaughtered him. > Some kind of scepter minion build where they start off with dumping tons of condi. It's probbaly one of the most common I have seen, WvW and sPvP. It's a very carry heavy build, it's tanky, does good dmg, has minions as meat shields etc etc. When you fight them, they almost always just face tank everything and often follow the same path and become predictable. This last weekend I farmed the same one for hours on our home BL, map rotation and run path were always the same, even though I killed them every time, they never tried to evade me, got dismounted in the same location every time etc etc. The annoying part is it's still super effective, as it does this non-stopped, so it almost always has all the south camps capped and will often take north camps if you are busy. It's hard to keep up with something that never takes a break. There is one more that uses porting, it doesn't even travel, it uses a hack to port straight into the camp, someone else posted a video of someone using this same hack on DBL where it was porting to shrines, right in front of the player, who would kill them, and then it would WP and port back in very short order, making it very obvious. That is not to say other builds/classes are not used for this, however for a bot/NPC content build, it's hard to beat because it will probably never die to a camp on it's own.

> @"DarkShade.6245" said: > Really? https://isapplesiliconready.com/de/for/graphics ;) > > > @"TinkTinkPOOF.9201" said: > > > @"commops.7164" said: > > > M1 Apple Silicon Client ? Where is it ? Per ticket # 7954737 - what is ETA on a build for M1 Macs? > > > > You are gonna have to run it in an emulator, I really, REALLY doubt anet is going to spend the money needed to make this work on ARM. Photoshop, who is a BIG seller for Apple computers said it wont be until end of 2021 before they have native M1 support. Then you are talking about a game? Which mac is already going to be a fraction of the user base and then you are talking about a just released HW set that is not even based on the x86 architecture and instruction sets? Yeah.....Not going to happen. > > You understand that lists shows that photoshop has to use Rosetta 2 (emulation) to work on computers using the ARM chip right? You understand that list actually proves what I am saying right? You understand that Adobe, who owns photoshop has been working on the M1 beta for some time and that the late 2021 statement was from their own press release at the time? The point being, if something as "simple" as photoshop who sells lots of software to Apple users and has been working on the ARM version of photoshop for over a year, shows how much work this is to get something to work native on the ARM architecture when porting from x86, keeping in mind, Photoshop already has ARM versions as well, so it's not like they are starting from scratch. This would involve not just a game recode, but a game engine one as well. And games are a small market on Apple, meaning that an investment of time and resources of that size for the smallest part of your market is never going to have ROI. As such, my answer still stands that if they want to run GW2 on a M1 based computer, it will probably always be in an emulator. You also posted a thread months ago about support for Big Sur/M1, and you got an answer there as well in the form of a video from an anet partner who said they spoke directly with their anet contact who said they had no current plans for supporting it. They also had a new Mac with the M1 chip, and installed it on video, stated that it required emulation to run and showed that on lowest settings in a populated area he was getting in the mid to upper 20 FPS, in an empty core map he got mid/upper 30's.

> @"Khalisto.5780" said: > > @"Gwaihir.1745" said: > > > @"Multicolorhipster.9751" said: > > > In a podcast it was said that the skills team(the team incharge of changing/reworking skills/traits) doesn't interact with the PvP balance person right now. > > > All they can really do is change numbers, increase/decrease CDs, and remove things from the PvP build panel. > > > > > > Reworking those 'placeholder' traits to do something else isn't possible if they can't work together, so they're probably going to be placeholders for a really long time . > > > Really hope that changes at some point. > > > > > > > Really? How effed is their workflow at this point? Did they all become developers somehow and not take a single course remotely related to technical communication? > > Cmc can work on number stats, but not on reworks, the guys with the power to do it are busy with expansion elites. Next they'll still be busy balancing the new broken elites. > > If we get lucky we'll get some huge patch before expansion release, or it won't be touched till 2022 prolly. Translation: "We screwed up some trait lines and made them go from OP passives to totally useless wastes of space, we understand this is a issue of our own doing, but we just don't care what the players want, we have an expac coming that we can monetize, and if you think we are going to let the skills team spend the 30mins needed to fix this and change it to something at least some what useful, well, you are exactly the gullible player base we want."