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Agony resistance adds literally nothing to the game except more time/gold grind and takes a wiki article or long forum post to explain. It's pretty dumb even when you understand it.
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Probad posted:When is your line of branded peripherals launching? I was hoping to be ready by the Christmas shopping season but its slow going because my dad won't let me use spray paint anymore after what I did to the driveway so I have to paint all of the mice with a brush which is a lot slower I have 5 done so far and one keyboard but the LEDs burnt out already
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Probad posted:Agony resistance adds literally nothing to the game except more time/gold grind and takes a wiki article or long forum post to explain. It's pretty dumb even when you understand it. They should add more content that requires Agony resist to justify its cost. Maybe a whole open world zone with mobs that apply Agony.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:They should add more content that requires Agony resist to justify its cost. Maybe a whole open world zone with mobs that apply Agony. Pulsing agony on spvp maps could also work.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:They should add more content that requires Agony resist to justify its cost. Maybe a whole open world zone with mobs that apply Agony. Could use some agony resist for this thread.
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Sprite141 posted:How did you read that and think I was melting down? Rambling, incoherent, stream-of-consciousness 10-paragraph posts tend to come off as functionally identical to ranting diatribes most of the time, dude.
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Schpyder posted:Rambling, incoherent, stream-of-consciousness 10-paragraph posts tend to come off as functionally identical to ranting diatribes most of the time, dude. I didn't really see anything that bad about the layout, personally disclaimer: am dumb enough to read threads in D&D
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LordAdakos posted:That is a good idea. https://www.gw2bltc.com/en/tool/dye/search?cloth=927743&leather=907646&metal=967841&sort=matcher Sure, but that 4% makes tang look like hot garbage by comparison. It's sand dye now and it's sand dye forever. George Sex - REAL fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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To be kind of fair to Diego the entire process of fractals and Agony resist is extremely unintuitive and I've also fallen into the trap of someone saying "hey come do a 10+ fractal" and scrambling to the TP/laurel vendor to get items that seem like they should work together but, in actuality, don't. If the naming and gearing process was slightly clearer I'd be completely fine with it but I wouldn't be surprised if there were a whole lot of players who, upon hearing that they needed 10+ Agony Resist, went to the TP and saw that a +5 is however much gold and justifiably reasoned "I don't want to spend that much money just to do content I may not enjoy", or worse, did buy it and found it later that it was useless to them.
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I don't think anyone was ever unfair to Diego. As stated, many players - myself included - see the +1s and assume they are how AR works. Then when someone in guild chat invites us to our first 10+ we get to learn all about buying 5 AR cheaply from a fractal vendor and cramming it into our trinkets. It's not our fault, Anet are just bad at things. All of us go through it.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Ascended gear is free if you gather the materials to craft it yourself. Only if you assign zero value to the massive amounts of time this would require. I'm not sure how you can "gather" thousands of silk anyways other than buying it.
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Kitty Fantastico posted:I don't think anyone was ever unfair to Diego. Whoa, rude as hell
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Mercurius posted:Dude, just stop. I say you're trying to spread FUD about Fractals and ascended gear just because you don't understand the mechanics and decided to go off on a tirade half-cocked and you're still doing it, read your own goddamn post. New players who are trying to find information about Fractals might be scared off from even thinking about trying them from the incorrect stuff you're still posting which is completely unfair on them, particularly with the changes to Fractals being the preferred 5 man group content in Heart of Thorns. Please stop twisting my words. I did point out my way of playing being different then some people yes, definitely not different than most players though. I picked apart what you posted against my aggressive horrible FUD, and agreed with everything you said where my arguments were wrong. Which was pretty much all of it. I noted very specifically the areas that really turned me off of fractals, but aparently not stated clearly enough that you have changed my view of fractals with these corrections of my misinformation. I am a changed man, and no longer have a bone to pick with fractals. Mercurius posted:To reiterate: you don't need ascended armour to do level 49 fractals because you can get 55AR from a full set of trinkets+weapon if you infuse the rings and backpack (and you'll get the drops required to infuse the stuff doing up to 29 fairly quickly). There's a very minimal difference in terms of reward between 49 and 50 and we don't know what's going to happen with the fractal masteries at this point so just chill out. Yeah dude, I know. I wasn't going out of my way to go further than the reasonably obtainable stuff. Ascended weapons are not easily or reasonably obtainable, same as the armor. Unless I'm so out of touch with crafting them that it is significantly less expensive than making a single piece of armor, my position on that has not and will not change. Because it isn't wrong to assume that most people, especially casual players, will be easily capable of grabbing the ascended armor and weapons to proceed in fractals. AND THAT IS OK. You should have to be able to build yourself up to get higher and higher. It's rewarding content. It's not ok that the armor is designed to be a huge timesink/moneysink when it is not that much easier to obtain when performing fractals. The infusions are for fractals, trying to do ascended armor without fractals should take a long rear end time. But having it be the same of difficulty to obtain, sans the rare box drop, by doing the content it was created for seems like bad game design in my opinion. I've repeated what you said that without armor and weapons it is still possible to get decently high in fractals, and that is good. I did so to try and help show that yes I was wrong, and you are right. That fractals aren't so bad. But face it, ascended armor and weapons are a lot more difficult to come by without RNG. I won't back down from that as it's true. Mercurius posted:You only need 10AR (which you can get in the accessories you can buy every 2 weeks of guild missions) to trivialise the damage in 10-19 fractals. You only need 25AR (either a weapon+3 trinkets, 5 trinkets or less if you end up with an infused ring) to do the same for 20-29. Again, anecdotally, I (and others like Cletus) have received more ascended gear box drops and fractal skins from 19 and 29 than we have from 49/50. This is actually really cool! I was using a drop rate spreadsheet some guy posted on reddit for when I posted what I did, but it's all RNG in the end. If I'm wrong and ascended box drops are pretty easy to get early on, then good. You know my big issue with fractals was never the AR. I didn't like the AR because it meant I couldn't jump in to help goons out who need more players and don't want to get pubbies, that's all. I do have a problem with ascended armor and weapons, but you have shown me that I need not worry about that for fractals anymore. My real beef with fractals (WHICH WILL BE FIXED WITH HoT) is the time sink of the fractals itself, of which I will be an outlier to the norm due to my lovely horrible attention span. And also always having to play with pubbies because when I'm on and want to do fractals, typically no one else does. Makes stuff drag on, really sucks ect. And so you don't call me out and FUD again I'll add a disclaimer for that last bit. Don't play with pubbies if you have to goons. Your experience may vary, but many times it probably won't be nice.
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Illuyankas posted:disclaimer: am dumb enough to read threads in D&D Get help.
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Lyer posted:what the hell is fud? What you put in your mouf. Fear, uncertainty, and doubt.
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ijyt posted:Sorry is no one going to comment on the freaky burnt husk child on that dragon spawns back? I'm still distracted by all the generally clashing colors and outfit aesthetics of the character itself, but yeah, wtf is up with that? Lore plz.
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Kitty Fantastico posted:I don't think anyone was ever unfair to Diego. As stated, many players - myself included - see the +1s and assume they are how AR works. Then when someone in guild chat invites us to our first 10+ we get to learn all about buying 5 AR cheaply from a fractal vendor and cramming it into our trinkets. It's not our fault, Anet are just bad at things. All of us go through it. There is nothing unfair to being pointed out where you are wrong. Honestly I had a lot of problems with AR that wasn't correct, and I'm glad I was shown this. I mean now that I know this, I've figured out that once I get some rings I can have have 40 AR. Once I infuse the rings and get a couple +5 stackable infusions I'll be able to do 40-49 rank fractals with little issues. Though I seriously won't bother increasing my rank until the fractals are seperated. It may not be a problem for other players, but it is for me. I feel like I have to add a disclaimer every time I say something that could be misconstrued to be against fractals now. Schpyder posted:Rambling, incoherent, stream-of-consciousness 10-paragraph posts tend to come off as functionally identical to ranting diatribes most of the time, dude. Yeah but that's kinda how I post in general. I've become aware of it, and have been trying to stop doing it but. Honestly I have always had to dump out my thoughts in one go since I was a kid, especially of it was in text. When I wasn't medicated, I would often forget what I was saying halfway through saying it. And if I tried to space things out, or get interrupted it was pretty much gone forever. It's a deeply entwined habit that's pretty loving hard to break to be honest.
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I use the world vee world infusions in my gear so i can kill the guards faster
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i don't really touch fractals because the infusion system is loving dumb welp, that's my story
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Is it even worth leveling a crating profession? Anything you can't buy?
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Is it even worth leveling a crating profession? Anything you can't buy? Yeah there's a couple of special things like https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Light_of_Dwayna https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Gift_of_Blades And all of the ascended armor. Legendary weapons can be bought.
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sometimes it's cheaper to level a profession to 400 than it is to buy the thing you want. also i think it's required for some things like mawdrey and/or legendaries
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You use gold and mats to buy cool skins because that is GW2 endgame. Also you can craft special backbacks which are pretty decent.
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Is it even worth leveling a crating profession? Anything you can't buy? If you don't plan on making your own ascended/legendary gear you can safely steer clear of crafting altogether. There are some account bound crafting backpacks you can make that have some ok skins that you can't buy but that isn't compelling enough to level up a crafting discipline unless you REALLY like them.
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WvW reset is changing. https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/first#post5609875
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Is it even worth leveling a crating profession? Anything you can't buy? It's good for squeezing out some extra levels on an alt if you don't feel like doing through the leveling process again.
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Visidan posted:WvW reset is changing. https://forum-en.guildwars2.com/forum/game/wuv/WvW-and-the-Heart-of-Thorns-Release/first#post5609875 This kinda blows.
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Sinister and Celestial, and I guess Nomad gear is account bound by default. Not sure if you can get a full set without some crafting.
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Slipknot Hoagie posted:Yeah there's a couple of special things like Ok, so are those armors good? chances are i'm going to be doing some pve with mostly pvp unless I stop playing. currently, i've found leveling to be the easiest when you do all the newbie zones and then story quest and then next newbie zones/etc. That's basically the crap grind i'm doing at the moment.
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Ok, so are those armors good? chances are i'm going to be doing some pve with mostly pvp unless I stop playing. currently, i've found leveling to be the easiest when you do all the newbie zones and then story quest and then next newbie zones/etc. That's basically the crap grind i'm doing at the moment. Ascended/Legendary stats are marginally better than Exotic so generally not worth it mechanically speaking, unless you're bored with nothing else to do or really really care about a ~5% boost. Mostly people craft the backpieces & legendaries for looks. PvP your gear doesn't matter anyway. You can start doing that right now if you get bored of pve shenanigans.
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Worth noting that while Ascended is only a 5% boost in raw stats, it works out to be a roughly 15% boost in DPS, which is pretty significant.
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If you're going for ascended the weapons will give you a bigger damage gain off the top than slowly crafting all your armor, though. Probably best to start with those!
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Thoom posted:Worth noting that while Ascended is only a 5% boost in raw stats, it works out to be a roughly 15% boost in DPS, which is pretty significant.
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