DeadMeat.8724

i am done with the Drakkar meta starting today. The day-in, day-out portal trolling that's killing people all the time is just ridiculous. Sorry, but i am not going to try and watch for every mesmer laying a portal and remember who did which one if it is a troll portal i took to try and report them. It's just not enjoyable on any level anymore. i am not going to hunt around for different time slots that don't have trolling, the trolls win by doing that too. Also, I have been stuck at 5 drakkar hoards total for months and do (did) the meta every day. Did Anet lower the drop rate?

ANET doesn't care about any sort of trolling, whether intentional or not. i have posted about personal merchants that only the owner can use, but everyone else gets a 'talk' interact being spawned on chests so people have to hunt around for chest interact, personal black lion merchants being spawn on dragonsblood spear barrel at north meta on thunderhead peaks interfering with meta, and so on. Intentional trolling has been reported and ANET doesn't care, even if it's one person constantly doing it day in and day out for weeks interfering with a meta. I am now boycotting that meta because if anet doesn't care why should i try and help or do that meta. i don't care to find a timeslot without a troll. Its an annoyance that i just don't care to deal with.

[Edit] sorry, supposed to "wiki does _not_ say anything yet"

I just came across some community trophies in my inventory from the recent fractal week event. But, the fractal researcher vendor is gone from the fractal gate (both LA and Mistlock Sanctuary). Does anyone know where it moved to? (Anet has created vendors elsewhere for past events like this, but wiki does say anything yet. i checked northwest LA area where festival vendors are and didn't notice anything.) Or, has Anet not yet created one? Thank you in advance.

They still need a block, keys are useless now after event since someone always gets up there before or during.

I learned early on, only buy one when you need it, and only buy one at a time. You don't need the materials in your direct player inventory, they can be in the bank.

Good luck anyone needing Serpent's Ire for golem backpack or exaltation. TTS is down to one day a week on their calendar and today they either didn't do it or were full before they started. People in map indicated they were watching lfg and never saw anything. a pug group of 30 or so tried and failed miserably. This thing is scaled beyond the capability of most pug groups. People don't know/don't care/don't bring something that can CC. I had 7 CC from my guardian and it was like hitting a brick wall. the 5 at our spot broke the bar maybe 3 times and got it to 90%. Anet should have statistics on how often meta's succeed and should realize this one is very poorly designed to get people to even want to do it, let alone succeed at it. Even dragonstand seems to be dying with low population at times, but its still doable with 15-20 each lane, rather than the 40-50 you used to get. The power creep that lets DS stay alive sure doesn't help SI.

its doable with 10-15 ppl, but with CC, it can be much easier. if ppl don't have enough CC it turns into can you dps it enough in the time limit. Also, tell ppl beforehand to wp if dead, dps lost to ppl rezzing others is stupid with the wp close by.

Metas should be added to those PoF maps that dont have them. The Desolation metas need to be put on a fixed timer, not knowing if you have to wait 5 min or 25 min doesn't help getting people to do them. Make the Maw and Junundu on opposite hours. Vabbi meta, ugh. A lot could be said about that meta - dont want to make it butter but something needs to be tweaked about the difficulty, maybe longer burn periods if you CC the zealots.

> @"Tiviana.2650" said:

> > @"alcopaul.2156" said:

> > > @"Paolino.8320" said:

> > > The gaming industry makes me sad. ANet employees deserve more than this.

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> > > Read the full article here: https://kotaku.com/guild-wars-2-developer-arenanet-plans-for-mass-layoffs-1832799804

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> > mobile gaming has become a very big market. and almost all people in the world are carrying mobile phones anywhere.

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> > it's almost certain that desktop gaming is becoming legacy gaming already (you have to be confined in a room and have a dedicated internet connection). but you have to think that full gaming experience from a desktop is very far from a mobile phone.

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> We have been saying this since blizzcon and the announcement of Diablo mobile. Rock solid pc gamers dont want to hear it, but this looks like the beginning of the end for pc. I am mad and sad about it, but nothing can really be done about it. You cant change the new generations coming up, and they are into tiny tech and mobile. Its the end of an era, blizzard laid off a bunch a few weeks back and they make a fortune still, so what does that bode for companies not as big?

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> Technology is advancing faster than ever, and big ole desktop rigs and laptops are becoming dinosaurs, people have busy lives they want to be able to do what they need to do on the go.

I agree, but I am the old dog that doesn't want to learn new tricks. I may play Sudoku or Solitaire type games on my phone. I don't want, nor feel i have the ability, to play any sort of RPG/action games on a phone. It may be though that for PC games to survive they need their own dedicated revenue stream beyond 'hoping' people buy stuff, but actually have to subscribe. The gem store path and gold->gem->gold conversion ANet put in place pleases a lot of people but as gaming evolves can that type of revenue stream keep any game alive for more than a short while anymore? I never played WoW other than a free starter account for a little bit, but also didn't want to commit to it partly because of the subscription fee, but in the future that may be the only way to go. I don't know.

The gaming world has changed a lot over the last 30 years and will probably change a lot over the next 10 years (especially if any reasonable VR takes hold; imagine if we get a holodeck equivalent). The absolute worst thing in my opinion is pay to win becoming universal. Gaming would be dead to me then. I'd try and go back and get old single-player games running again.

For MMO's, other than Diablo 2/3 (which got very old, very fast) and playing a free starter account on Wow to about level 9 where i thought i would kill myself, Guild Wars 1 and 2 has been the only other MMO I have played so far, and so far I am more than satisfied with it, and feel no need to go out and look for other MMO's (at this time).

Update to personal merchants. So, some trolls are now putting personal Black Lion merchants over spears in thunderhead keep meta. Now you are hunting around trying to click on the spear barrel or get the interact to get the spears. And this was NOT the reset meta, where you might want to go slow. It's gone beyond spamming them on chests/farm nodes. Personal merchants of any sort should be placed in-game in whatever way is necessary that other people cannot interact with them.

I forgot to mention another QOL issue i wouldn't mind having. Just like in your character inventory you have a Deposit all Materials option. It would be nice to have that option in the Account Vault. There are times you pull stuff out of material storage (mystic forge recipes, for example) but still have the same material in the account vault since you had more than the material storage would allow. There are other ways materials end up in the vault and not the material storage area. It would be nice to have the deposit option to help clean up the vault. Thanks.

If it has not been mentioned before, PLEASE make personal merchants (usable only by the owner) so they cannot be interacted with by anyone but the owner. People placing their merchant over nodes is very frustrating (i know it can also be an auto-spawn if bags full). Trying to find the node to click on it to bypass the merchant is also a pain sometimes.

I am also having a problem with the axe but have not spent a lot of time on it, i am sure i have many kills within a 5 min period at less than 10% health, even kill about 6 in 10 seconds at 86 health, but one post i read somewhere indicated it could be bugged and you have to get the 5 kills within 5 seconds not minutes.

Tried the Deadly Accuracy achieve many times, even again today, killed >50 spiders each time, tried during metas, and cannot get achieve to complete. Both other achieves for rifle are done. In my opinion, its not quite the same as the focus issue. For focus, i got all 3 sub-achieves completed, but since reward for one achieve wasn't correct, the main achieve for focus didn't show complete (which they fixed by allowing those who got achieve to get reward item from vendor). Here, for rifle, you can't seem to get credit for kills to complete achieve.