Uziduke posted:

How is GW2 going? I been on a EVE kick and haven't had much time to play anything else.

mind the walrus posted:

So this is odd. I'm in a small guild run by a teenager. Apparently she was dumb enough to leave her mats for a Legendary in the guild bank after inviting some new pub into it. Now the pub has run off with all the mats and she's crying because she has no idea what to do. Since this was all technically kosher I imagine customer support will do jack poo poo so I told her to post a sob story on the GW2 reddit and forums. Not really asking for advice, just sharing the schadenfreude.

Schpyder posted:

Hey gooms, I just got another alt up to 80, so you know what that means. It's HoT HP train time! I'd like to get as productive a one going as possible, so please let me know what time would work best for you all. I'm thinking maybe like 9 PM EST tomorrow or Wednesday?

Generic Octopus posted:

No, and in fact the removal of decent rewards from dungeons was a deliberate act intended to encourage players to play fractals/raids/HoT content instead. Do not expect it to change any time soon.

Lutha Mahtin posted:

but drat sometimes i think they should build in structural bullshit-callers to their internal processes. a person or people whose sole purpose would be to respond to internal proposals with counterpoint proposals that point out all the tone-deaf ways that the internal proposal will come across to players

Lutha Mahtin posted:

i get that anet's whole (unintentional) gimmick is they have absolutely amazing ideas and then get tripped up in the implementation.

Hefty posted:

I finished the pvp reward track for the last maguuma zone and I got a chak egg that I can apparently use to buy a weapon. Kind of hosed up that this reward track only gives you one weapon, but whatevs. So I go to buy this thing and oh actually they cost 3-5 eggs.

God drat it, Colin.

Illuyankas posted:

AmyL posted:

Is...that Condor Man from Disney?

Hefty posted:

I finished the pvp reward track for the last maguuma zone and I got a chak egg that I can apparently use to buy a weapon. Kind of hosed up that this reward track only gives you one weapon, but whatevs. So I go to buy this thing and oh actually they cost 3-5 eggs.

God drat it, Colin.

Magres posted:

Uh are you sure you got a Chak Gerent Cache and not a Veteran Chak Cache (which is also on the reward track)

Cause according to the official wiki the Veteran Chak Cache should give you the egg and the Chak Gerent Cache should give you the weapon. Like submit a support ticket if you got the wrong thing from it, according to both the in-game description and the wiki it should be giving you a weapon, not an egg.

U.T. Raptor posted:

It's the Tangled Depths track that gives you a chak weapon (you can only do this one once, because :anet:), the generic HoT reward track just gives you a choice of reclaimed plate, a chak egg, and I think an auric ingot or something every time you finish it.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

malhavok posted:

The big balance patch is today right?

LiftAuff posted:

Yup, I can't check but people are already complaining about some stealth nerfs.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

It's not out yet though?

quote:

Withdraw: The healing values of this skill have been increased by 10%.
Double Strike: This skill’s damage has been increased by 42%.
Lotus Strike: This skill’s damage has been increased by 29%. The attack point has been increased by 0.06 seconds and the aftercast delay has been reduced by 0.35 seconds.
Shadow Shot: This skill will now trigger Assassin’s Reward correctly, even if it misses.
Shadow Strike: This skill will now trigger Assassin’s Reward correctly, even if it misses.
Slice: The attack point of this skill has been increased by 0.16 seconds.
Slash: Reduced the aftercast delay of this skill by 0.1 seconds.
Crippling Strike: Increased the attack point of this skill by 0.08 seconds. Reduced the aftercast delay of this skill by 0.48 seconds.
Basilisk Venom: While under the effects of this venom, your attacks are unblockable.
Hidden Thief: This trait now grants 50% bonus movement speed while in stealth.
Fleet Shadow: This trait has been renamed to Instant Reflexes. This trait no longer grants bonus movement speed while in stealth and will instead grant the thief evasion for 2 seconds when struck while under 50% health, with an internal cooldown of 40 seconds.
Feline Grace: This trait’s vigor duration has been increased from 4 seconds to 5 seconds.
Pain Response: This trait now also removes torment in addition to its current removals.
Guarded Initiation: This trait now removes confusion in addition to its current removals. The health threshold has been reduced from 90% to 75%.
Swindler’s Equilibrium: This trait now also grants 5% bonus damage to sword and spear attacks.
Assassin’s Reward: This trait’s base healing per level has been increased by about 50% and its healing power contribution has been increased by 70%.
Upper Hand: This trait now grants regeneration for 6 seconds when the initiative regain occurs.

Daredevil:
Driven Fortitude: The healing from this trait will now appear in the combat log.
Staff Strike: This skill’s damage has been increased by 36%.
Staff Bash: This skill’s damage has been increased by 16%.
Punishing Strikes: This skill’s damage has been increased by 44%.

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Lutha Mahtin posted:

... i think they should build in structural bullshit-callers to their internal processes. a person or people whose sole purpose would be to respond to internal proposals with counterpoint proposals that point out all the tone-deaf ways that the internal proposal will come across to players

quote:

Adjusted the score threshold for the Haywire Punch-o-matic Battle adventure in Tangled Depths from 230 to 200. The timer for completion has also been increased from 2:00 to 2:30.

Blasphemeral posted:

This is hilarious. Is this official? I doubt it, but I really hope it is.