Svarty.8019

> @"Dragon.4782" said: > Am I the only one that is kind of annoyed at daggers not getting any cool designs aside from their hilt? I mean swords, GS, axes, maces, and even hammers have gotten really cool and/or interesting designs in various weapon sets but for some reason daggers are just letter openers. Why cant we have a miniature scimitar dagger, or a kukri? Hell, why not split charakams or sai's? Remember when they asked players to design weapons? The templates are extremely restrictive.

> @"Crackers.9628" said: > I was roaming as thief. Some thief killed me and started jumping and dropped siege on me. Naturally I went back and killed him this time, only for someone on my own server to start trash talking me, calling me kitten, noob, he will transfer to farm me, etc. He has in the same guild as the thief I killed. > > The thief came back, and because my server mate stood on me, the thief could track my stealth and killed me. Then of course more trash talk and dropping siege. > > Of course the toxicity is rampant from other servers, but how are people so awful they literally grief their own teammates? Actively helping enemy server kill your own server. > Remove stealth. Problem solved. You're welcome. Gief moneyz, top tier game design.

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said: > > @"TinkTinkPOOF.9201" said: > > > @"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. > > We used to trigger him in order to distract for hills... let him hit the tower, they respond and by the time they realized, you were banging on inner gate. The best part is that you can trigger both the Siegeraiser and Siegecrusher and while the enemies batter him at one tower, you can be at the other. Sadly, the Power Creep has made him incredibly weak. The people spawn camping you can usually kill both of them. There is hope, though! > @"Cal Cohen.2358" said: > something like.. > "Siegeraiser should just bash the door down in one hit" ... during one of the old Livestreams. They probably don't ever get time for things like that so... not MUCH hope, but hope nonetheless.

> @"QuickRain.4735" said: > > @"PrinceValentine.9320" said: > > It seems like it is the most treasured camp out of all camps and people will go defend it even when they are on a different BL. I'm just curious. > > 1. Back when people truly cared about "winning" and server loyalty and politics. > I'm not so sure about winning as such, but certainly a sense of community and doing what you can to help out. Not so much "server pride" either, before any of the clowns start spouting that old trope. As others have said, NC is the best camp. It's also where the Orbs spawned. Something for you to Google.

Everybody says Learn but nobody offers to teach.

oO Wow, the rewards in PvE are so much better than WvW!

Giant zergs karma training vs barely any defenders. BORING! That's not the point at all.

> @"tippolit.3591" said: > > @"Svarty.8019" said: > > > @"tippolit.3591" said: > > > > @"yoni.7015" said: > > > > I enjoy WvW. if you don’t like it just don’t play it. It’s that simple. > > > > > > Fact is, WvW is geared to the lowest common denominator relative to skill. > > > > Skill? IMHO that shouldn't be regarded as something positive in a game - it should surely appeal to a broader audience than just the elite? As such, skill shouldn't be seen as something to be lauded or rewarded. I think the Arenanet who made the game might have known this. > > Skill shouldn't be lauded or rewarded?? I rest my case. Lolol. Absolutely it shouldn't. If you do this, you end up with one person having fun at the expense of many. That appeals to a minority = poor design values.

Looking forward to it...

> @"Chemistral.7318" said: > What do you want to see the most in EoD? TEN MORE LEVELS! And all the things I've spent forever acquiring being worth nothing. That'd be just dandy! WoohooO!!!1111 No?

Everything after the introduction of Ryland was mediocre and the plot, predictable. As a WvW player, I don't do a lot of PvE. I did, however, play a lot of both Bjora maps. As I understand it, there were different teams working on each. I thought the first map was good, but the second map didn't evoke the same feeling. When they brought out a WvW-a-like map I wondered, why don't they make WvW better instead? Why make this parody of WvW? I've seen quite a few new players appear in WvW since, so maybe that's what they were trying to do, but in that case... Why not improve WvW so that those new players have a better experience? It's quite a frustrating dilemma. I suppose the developers have similar feelings about this - or maybe they think, "new maps are always the way to go and old content costs too much manpower to change". [Why am I "feeling" instead of "thinking"? ]( )

> @"TheThief.8475" said: > > @"Svarty.8019" said: > > > @"TheThief.8475" said: > > > There are a tons of other improvements that arenanet could do to improve > > ... improving existing things isn't how game development works. > > > > > > This is why dungeon are dead and PvP is dead :) You've probably seen it before, but for those who haven't :

> > @"Dawdler.8521" said: > > The event only exist on EB nowadays. I call fake news. > > But they are being spawn camped on 4 borders and 12 exits. ? It WAS on EB. And we wanted the Siegeraiser Breakout Event, not exits! > @"primatos.5413" said: > This makes me sad somehow :( > C'moon Anet we got to do something?! > Ah.. wait.. did u try asking teamchat oder mapchat for help starting event?! That was the first thing we tried, Then we tried moved the golems over to siegeraiser, thinking people might want to try to recap using those, but no. Then we tried building bonfires and food to lure people over ... ... and dancing in stupid cosmetic outfits to draw in the PvE crowd. Then we tried playing musical instruments in the hope that [cmaj] might be nearby. Nothing worked. :( We can only pray for intervention from the developers.

> @"RisenHowl.2419" said: > Put on some carrion gear if you feel too squishy, I usually run with a couple pieces at least. You shouldn't try to run through a zerg either unless you have no choice, play it off tag for best results. Just dip into your zerg for healing if you need it, but don't sit on your stack =D > I'm Dire all the way, baby! I don' need no stinkin' orange numbers.

I know what he does. We need him to trigger and don't have enough players to do so.

> @"crepuscular.9047" said: > as the title suggests, can we have a preview to Shing Jea Monastery? and be there permanently instead of divinity's reach from now on? Cue the creation of the Shing Jea Monastery (whatever it is) Transportation Ticket available for only 700 gems. A bargain!

I've said over and over and over that handicaps are the way to go. Nobody ever listens, and yet everything gets worse. Coincidence?

More mechanics ... player-buildable things. More sandboxy stuff in regions OUTSIDE of guild halls. On the whole, more player-made things, player agency and freedom of expression.

> @"SexyMofo.8923" said: > It’s boring and no one watches it. The relentless fake corporate cheeriness is wearing on the patience.

> @"TheThief.8475" said: > There are a tons of other improvements that arenanet could do to improve ... improving existing things isn't how game development works.

> @"The Boz.2038" said: > You said there was a viable power and condi build for each class. To claim that, we first need to agree on what viable means. Let's clear it up then. Viable means literally: Vie = Live, Able = Can. Capable of Life. So yes, all builds are capable of life, but let's say it's Capable of Comfortable Life. Your character should at minimum, be able to get loot - that's pretty much all you need - other players can rez you so survivability doesn't really matter. It's a very low bar. And we're done. But it's silly. What we want is something more sensible, so let's say, as we want our character to perform about as well as other players' characters do. So let's say Viable means to be able to perform in a similar way to our peers in terms of damage done/taken before dying. Do you agree to these terms?

> @"Sobx.1758" said: > > @"Svarty.8019" said: > > > @"ASP.8093" said: > > > "I'm bad at this game, therefore it's impossible for anyone to be good at it." Uh-huh. Very convincing. > > > > Nice strawman. > > Not really, that's what you said in your first post. It's been ages, let me read it again ... It seems quite a considerable leap from the text to your interpretation. ... the good news is that you get to have another go!

I was going to answer 'don't care', because I do not. But for the sake of the poll... I answered 'yes'. Because it MIGHT affect WvW performance, how am I supposed to know?

> @"Blood Red Arachnid.2493" said: > The important thing to remember is that the META is largely about community enforcement. The community is focusing on speed clears and defined roles when they recommend builds. A strong case can be made for creating builds that don't do things quickly, but comfortably. Even for raids, you don't need to run the super-effective comps with pure glass builds to win. A community can have expectations where the players prefer not to wear glass cannon gear, because they don't want to spend their time dealing with losses from thin margins of error. > I would like to know how to "comfortably" counter gankers or zergs in WvW :disappointed: Joking aside, I think the tank-averse doctrine seems to force people go burst or go home. Slow-and-steady damage could get out-healed, so instead it's about spikes. That's as true with conditions (supposedly DoTs) as it is with power damage - and it's as true with NPCs/Mobs vs player as it is with player vs player. Mobs drop giant spikes and often heal periodically, nullifying the option of comfortable damage. A dead enemy can't hurt you. Kill it before it kills you. Attack is the best form of defense. A more nuanced system would be very expensive. The saving graces of GW2 are Dodge and Downed State : They prevent this system from looking silly.

So... everybody gets rewarded if they are on a low tier server and zerg all over the top 3 servers. I ... actually ... I like that idea. Wow. Defending is going to bloody hard tho. Can we have the old T2 and T3 walls back?