Ayrilana.1396

> @"Firebeard.1746" said:

> > @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> > Such entitlement to expect others to teach you how to play the game.

> I think it's entitlement to defend terrible metas, people teaching them and then whine when no one plays the game mode. Gee whose fault is that?

I think it would be beneficial to look up what entitlement actually means. Your usage of it in your post is incorrect.

How about they give those paranoid about it the option to just hide the tab.

Such entitlement to expect others to teach you how to play the game.

Alacrigade doesn’t require weapon swaps except for when you need to CC. If you’re doing the heal variant, you can just camp staff.

There’s also a condi SB build that is relatively comparable to other condi classes with minor exceptions (e.g. condi chrono for largos). This build can camp shortbow.

Power daredevil is another that doesn’t require weapon swapping at all. Same goes for rifle deadeye.

One issue that I see regardless is that the majority of builds use many of the F1-5 skills so if you’re having issues using the weapon swap key then you may have similar issues with those.

Just use them and then use the permanent one. That’s what I do for all of them.

> @"Solomon Darkfury.3729" said:

> > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:

> > > @"maddoctor.2738" said:

> > > IF I'm not mistaken US servers are in Texas. EU servers are in Frankfurt

> >

> > NA servers are in Virginia; it's been years since they were in Texas.

> > EU servers are still in Frankfort, though they are different servers now.

> >

> > @OP You can find the IP address of any map by typing /IP in chat, and use a program (like PingPlotter) to check your connection.

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> How do I translate the the PingPlotter data. I've run a test using the IP for the Lion's Arch I was in, and it looks like I'm getting 100% packet loss?! How is that even possible? I'm in North Carolina! Literally one state over...

You have to look along the entire route. Generally you’re going to see 100% packet loss from the AWS servers as they don’t respond to ping requests.

> @"robertthebard.8150" said:

> > @"Danikat.8537" said:

> > > @"OldGamer.2986" said:

> > > > @"Zeivu.3615" said:

> > > > > @"Roche.7491" said:

> > > > > 200 gems is just 2.5 dollars. Its nothing. Buy it. I spend 50 dollars to my gf a day.

> > > >

> > > > Hell, you don't even need to pay real money for it. Gotta love the gold to gems for us broke people

> > >

> > > not if you're like and have after 4 years playing only 4 gold

> >

> > My second account is just over 5 years old, has 60 hours played in total, mostly doing the story and time afk in towns, highest level character is level 48 and even then I've had more than 4 gold at once, and far more than 4g worth of materials collected. (No help from my main account either, it's actually the opposite - I send gold and materials from my 2nd account to the main one whenever I need it.)

> >

> > If someone's had the game for 4 years and only had 4 gold I think it would either be because they're a very casual and/or occasional player who has not done much and therefore doesn't need to be thinking about getting new episodes because there will be tons of content still to do in the main game, or they're spending gold on other things and likely saving lots of materials and maybe even equipment they could otherwise sell. In that case it's just a question of prioritising: is getting the episode/s you want with gold worth more than whatever else you're getting? If so save up, maybe go through your materials etc. and see what you can sell and buy them, if not just keep doing other things or consider using real money instead.

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> Nah, they could be like me, and see a shiny on the market, and buy it. According to the achievement tracker I've had almost 2 million gold, but according to my bank, I'm fluctuating somewhere around 100 now. Back when I used to ignore the dailies, I'd be lucky to hit 10 gold.

That’s like someone spending all their money on clothes and then saying they don’t have enough to spend on a movie ticket. Simply re-prioritize your spending.

> @"Trevor Boyer.6524" said:

> This thread goes right back into why I believe sites like snowcrows need to list two different kinds of metas:

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> 1. The normal speed clear meta designed for players of peak experience who don't make mistakes. You could call this "the elite meta."

> 2. And then a "safe meta" where the meta is designed for players who do make mistakes, that would gladly DPS a bit slower to be able to clear a raid. It is often that a normal speed clear meta build operating at 100% damage output, can sacrifice about 10% to 15% of that dps value, to literally "double or triple" it's own sustain value, simply by bringing 1 defensive utility + some trait swap to a defensive trait. And then of course the kinds of things can be done which the OP mentioned.

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> ^ If this where to be done, LFGs could list as: "Elite" or "Safe" and players could have different standards within squads, but two different methods to be able to agree upon. It would make the communication of expectations a lot easier. People have said they wanted an easy mode for raids, well this would be the easiest way to achieve it, a community accepted alternative "Safe" meta that players can organize around, who want to play at that pace.

How about you provide the builds for what you deem to be the “safe meta”.

Why are you hard set on these items, which haven’t been used since 2012, being used to craft minis?

> @"Blumpf.2518" said:

> In theory yes, but in reality people are stupid and snowcrows should consider this and maybe offer LFG builds and LFG raid setups for the average players.

It’s not on them to do this.

> Since they are the meta they have some responsibility and should not, even unintentionally, destroy raiding for average players.

They’re not intentionally, or unintentionally, destroying raiding. Thinking that they are just means that you’re failing to understand the issue.

If players blindly feel that meta is the only way to do content, then it’s on them and not the ones who provide the builds. There will always be meta builds.

Those who want nothing to do with meta builds can always create their own groups and do content with like minded players.

> @"Carnius Magius.8091" said:

> I was able to get all my accidently deleted tools and glyphs restored to my account. I'm a happy camper now. Thank you ANET. **If you look at the delete character dialog box now, you will see the change I was asking for. Instead of a simple warning, we got an extensive warning**. I couldn't ask for more. :)

It's the exact same warning that we have had for years.

Edit: Here's a video for reference.

I implore everyone to please take their time when reading these confirmation boxes and don't simply ignore them. When I delete a character, usually one to farm keys, I always log onto the character and double check that it has nothing that I wouldn't want deleted.

So you want them to move a dead JP to a dead map?

Also for those that feel they should have gotten LS episodes with the expansions:

> Owners of Guild Wars 2:Path of Fire can unlock new Living World episodes by logging in during each episode's free introductory period. Previously-released episodes can be purchased in game.

https://buy.guildwars2.com/store/gw2/en_US/html/pbPage.pathoffire/themeID.4785548100

It’s indicated that they are not included.

> @"Veridiano.8659" said:

> Actually there are already packs with the expansion + LWS3 (With HoT) or LWS4 (With PoF). They just must be announced properly in the game store (and not only on the gem shop) specially post Steam Release. Also a pack with both expansions + All LW (Seasons 2 to 4 and Icebrood saga) added to the Steam release wouldn't be a bad idea.

There isn’t already packs with LS3+HoT or LS4+PoF though.

> @"Ardyth.9286" said:

> > @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> > There’s a difference between representing a guild just for the time that you’re trying to use a feature (e.g. guild bank, claiming in WvW, check out MOTD, guild hall feature, etc) versus representing a guild 100% of the time.

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> Is it acceptable to switch to the non-100% rep Guild while using the Guild Bank, etc., and then switch back to the 100% rep Guild?

I assume most allow that. The point that I was making was that there’s little reason to represent any particular guild.

There’s a difference between representing a guild just for the time that you’re trying to use a feature (e.g. guild bank, claiming in WvW, check out MOTD, guild hall feature, etc) versus representing a guild 100% of the time.

100% representation guilds still exist? I would have thought those went away like five years ago when representing stopped mattering for guild improvements and we got access to guild specific chat channels.

> @"WindBlade.8749" said:

> > @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> > > @"WindBlade.8749" said:

> > > > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:

> > > > There are no free transfers with the purchase of either expansion. Unless, of course, the account was previously Play4Free.

> > > Well then you get one when you purchase one of the dlc ? same thing then, i remember using it recently without paying for anything anyway so it's really there.

> >

> > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World#Free_Accounts

> >

> > > Free accounts are able to choose their world when first set up; however, they cannot transfer to a different world by any method. After **upgrading to a paid account**, they receive **one free transfer** to any non-full world.

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> You can't create something that is not a free account.

You can purchase the game and register at the time of purchase. Even then, the point was to clarify your post where you made it seem that the act of purchasing an expansion would provide a free server transfer when it’s not entirely true. A paid account purchasing an expansion would not get a free server transfer. Free server transfers also have nothing to do with DLCs.

> @"WindBlade.8749" said:

> > @"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:

> > There are no free transfers with the purchase of either expansion. Unless, of course, the account was previously Play4Free.

> Well then you get one when you purchase one of the dlc ? same thing then, i remember using it recently without paying for anything anyway so it's really there.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/World#Free_Accounts

> Free accounts are able to choose their world when first set up; however, they cannot transfer to a different world by any method. After **upgrading to a paid account**, they receive **one free transfer** to any non-full world.

If they’re taking that long then they’re better off farming custom arena wins. It’ll take roughly 12.5 hours that route.

To be honest, I believe that the estimated time the OP is giving is grossly exaggerated.

It’s the same with CoE only that that meta is significantly longer.

> @"sorudo.9054" said:

> > @"Ayrilana.1396" said:

> > > @"sorudo.9054" said:

> > > > @"Jilora.9524" said:

> > > > I mean you can easily guess. Halloween. New episode Nov 10-24th. Christmas event . Some rush event. New years event. I don't really need a road map for this time of year. Disappointment if no new episode in Nov but other then that we know what is coming

> > >

> > > which only makes it look like the game is on life support, not a good sign.

> >

> > The game gets continuous updates. It’s hardly on life support.

>

> GW1 also gets continues updates when needed, doesn't say much.

Except we both know that the updates which GW1 gets is vastly different from what GW2 gets.

It’s quite easy to have more than five builds per armor weight across the entire game.

> @"BunjiKugashira.9754" said:

> Honestly ascended equipment is so easy to get, especially as a raider, that it doesn't really matter. Just go for the armor that you like the skin of.

Except for when they eventually add legendary armory meaning you’ll only ever need a single legendary armor set for each weight. It removes the need to have many ascended sets for many builds across many characters.