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Sure, Blizzard puts out the same formulaic expansion every 2 years. But Arena Network has always been innovative, and with Heart of Thorns they re-defined what can be called an MMO expansion.
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Kerrrrrrr posted:Come on down to Goldshire and have yourself a time respectfully decline, it's not in my budget
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Mar 29, 2016 01:19
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CLAM DOWN posted:Hmmm, I wonder if a certain dictator from the past would have deleted troublesome forum posts, hrrmmmm... nobody outside Canada cares about Harper
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Mar 29, 2016 01:51
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ItBurns posted:you have to know when to pull out I wish your dad knew.
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Mar 29, 2016 02:17
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Lonk posted:I wish your dad knew. just use a wet wipe you big baby
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Mar 29, 2016 02:19
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Adhesive Gamin posted:Sure, Blizzard puts out the same formulaic expansion every 2 years. But Arena Network has always been innovative, and with Heart of Thorns they re-defined what can be called an MMO expansion. Agreed. I think it's really brave of ANet to forge new ground and call what they gave us a "fully -fledged video games MMORPG Content Expansion"
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Mar 29, 2016 03:56
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They should have just told us that Heart of Thorns was in beta, that way none of us could complain about any of it
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Mar 29, 2016 04:05
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Early access GW2 expansion.
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Mar 29, 2016 04:55
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imagine how much a trainwreck things would have been if they hadn't had the beta weekends remember when revenants could only have one weapon equipped at a time?
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Mar 29, 2016 04:57
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Johnny Joestar posted:imagine how much a trainwreck things would have been if they hadn't had the beta weekends Have they even finished the revenant underwater skills or was that given up on too?
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Mar 29, 2016 05:09
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Pesterchum posted:Have they even finished the revenant underwater skills or was that given up on too? I forgot underwater content existed again
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Mar 29, 2016 07:05
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Kerrrrrrr posted:I forgot underwater content existed bring back daily underwater veteran slayer
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Mar 29, 2016 07:07
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Your action bar completely disappearing when you're on the water's surface is still one of the dumbest deliberate decisions I've seen in any game of any genre. I'm sure they did it because they didn't think the animations looked proper, but I'd rather have a functioning game.
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Mar 29, 2016 07:23
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Mercury_Storm posted:Your action bar completely disappearing when you're on the water's surface is still one of the dumbest deliberate decisions I've seen in any game of any genre. I'm sure they did it because they didn't think the animations looked proper, but I'd rather have a functioning game.
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Mar 29, 2016 07:46
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Kerrrrrrr posted:I forgot underwater content existed so did anet
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Mar 29, 2016 07:46
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I think this is probably why Anet doesn't communicate with it's playerbase, giant shitstorm from a couple posts. Course the posts were about cutting promised content and about the impossible struggles of changing the text in LFG to include raids, but probably would of gone better for them if cutting legendary weapons was done silently after releasing the two new ones and then everyone would just assume it's regular Anet patching schedule that they been waiting 1-2 years for the next batch to come out.
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Mar 29, 2016 08:01
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"Why are they all so mad? Because we lied to them? Are you sure??"
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Mar 29, 2016 08:48
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Only way to win now is not to play, at least you have a chance with the lottery, makes u thikn
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And yet, the base game is still real good. I'm glad I took a break from gw2 after HoT released. Now I have a bunch of content to jump into while we wait for the next big thing. Ok so hey, I have few questions about ascended armor stats and class usefullness in higher fractals. I want to get full ascended armor on one character for fractals, while at the same time I plan on making it be viper armor because I have poo poo I can convery already. I plan in getting vipers for my ranger and necro. Because I really want my necro to shine, I wanted that one to get the ascended vipers. However, I have heard ascended armor isn't a big stat boost over exotic, so for vipers I'm assuming it doesn't matter if the necro gets the ascended armor or not. Is this the correct way to look at it? See, I also want the ascended chest and leg skins of light armor to mix for my mesmer and necromancer. It's just easier to get it on my necromancer, but I am unsure as to how effective a necromancer is in higher fractals. I remember a year or so ago when Bird was telling me about class usage in higher tier fractals. At the time, necromancers brought very little for party aid, and were mostly a self sufficient class. Now with HoT and further balance changes, how well do necros fair in high fractals? Also is condi affective in high level fractals, or does this all not matter as I'll just be using power gear anyway?
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Mar 29, 2016 14:27
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Just make ascended berserker gear of whatever armor weight you play the most since it's generally more useful if you're only going to have one set. poo poo's not hard.
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Mar 29, 2016 14:57
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Yeah but I'm trying to make viper gear, and I'm already have like 2-3 pieces I can convert if possible. I just don't want to have to double down on zerk gear later if condi just isn't gonna cut it for fractals.
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Mar 29, 2016 15:13
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The "Ascended isn't a huge stat boost over exotic" was an old saying from pre-HoT. With Viper's gear it's a bit more important due to Expertise and how not-readily available the trinkets are. It's about a 9% difference, give or take, depending on what metric you use. But Exotic Viper is about the same pain in the rear end to make as Ascended, so may as well just jump to the end. Use gw2skills to compare your specific gear numbers for yourself: http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ Any class in Champ Fractals is fine. It's all the same Swampfarm.
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I mean if you're going to spend the hundreds of gold/tens of hours getting ascended armor i figure it'd be smarter to make a set that more characters can use. Aka berserker. But I have altitis so ymmv Edit: also lol condi ranger Xun fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Mar 29, 2016 |
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Mar 29, 2016 15:21
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Oh no, I have altitis too, but I'm not gonna switch armor between characters. Anyway, if it doesnt matter then I'll get the ascended vipers for my necro. I'm not gonna have ascended other poo poo for it until I can afford it from raiding (so never). I am less caring about having good viper stats on my ranger and/or engineer so I'll just leave those as exotic for now.
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AnacondaHL posted:The "Ascended isn't a huge stat boost over exotic" was an old saying from pre-HoT. What the heck are you talking about. Weapons have always been a worthwhile investment because of the damage boost. Armour is objectively not a huge stat boost over exotic. That's not an "old saying" wtf You get ascended armour for the agony slots for fractals beyond what you can do with rings/accessories, same as always
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As I posted in the next two sentences, Ascended Armor is now an objective and tangible stat bonus over Exotic for Viper's gear. And that's not the only example, people looking for Commander's gear will get an above norm bonus as well. And yes, it was an old saying, it was a lazy way for people to describe how to obtain Zerk/Soldier/vendor-purchaseable gear because it used to be relevant across the board. That is no longer the case. And I never discounted the "get your ascended weapons first" idea, which is still true today. Dunno why you sperged out on this like that 
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AnacondaHL posted:As I posted in the next two sentences, Ascended Armor is now an objective and tangible stat bonus over Exotic for Viper's gear. And that's not the only example, people looking for Commander's gear will get an above norm bonus as well. You said the statement that ascended not being a huge stat bonus was an old saying, which is a really odd and wrong thing to say. Pointing out that you're wrong about something isn't "sperging" fyi
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Mar 29, 2016 16:51
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Oh yeah, I need to get weapons too. That'll be a much bigger pain, as I don't have any weaponcraft leveled to 500. Well at least weapons aren't as expensive as armor.
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CLAM DOWN posted:You said the statement that ascended not being a huge stat bonus was an old saying, which is a really odd and wrong thing to say. Pointing out that you're wrong about something isn't "sperging" fyi Sure, thanks for the pedantry. "'Ascended armor is not a huge stat boost' was an old saying". Which is what my original post was talking about in context anyways. Jesus.
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nice gear treadmill
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AnacondaHL posted:Sure, thanks for the pedantry. "'Ascended armor is not a huge stat boost' was an old saying". Which is what my original post was talking about in context anyways. Jesus. You're unusually upset for someone who has lovely reading comprehension, I was crystal clear with quoting your specific line And you're still wrong. It's not a "huge" stat boost. It's slight.
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Technically, ascended 4-stat armor is a larger stat gain over ascended 3-stat armor, since the 4-stat armor has more points total to increase by whatever percent. It's most noticeable for Celestial but the only reason you'd make Celestial Ascended armor is WvW roaming on elementalist or something like that, and the difference there is like a single percent more stats gained compared to 3-stat armor. And it's still not really much in practice, you get like 0.73% more condition duration, 0.5% crit, and about a single might application's worth of power and condition damage by making your viper armor Ascended instead of Exotic (going by the http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ calculator). Upgrading your accessories from exotic to ascended is still twice the stat gain as upgrading armor. As for condition builds in fractals, there's a few spots you'll run into problems: - Molten Facility final boss core thing doesn't receive conditions - Dredge fractal boss doesn't appear to take extra condition damage while the Superheated buff is active - Traps in Swamp fractal use your own stats to apply their cripple and immobilize, so you need to be especially careful when running wisps with a condi build Nothing huge, and the traps can be avoided, but I don't personally play a condition build in fractals so there could be some I haven't seen.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:you get like 0.73% more condition duration, 0.5% crit, and about a single might application's worth of power and condition damage by making your viper armor Ascended instead of Exotic To quote the next god-emperor of the united states, that's "yyyyyuuuuuuge" indeed
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I think the new bubble glider will push me to create an ele that looks like Glinda the good... Do I consider the Asura as munchkins then?
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Johnny Joestar posted:so did anet Next expansion will be 4 new maps completely underwater but don't worry they'll release 16 new legendary weapons--all underwater weapons.
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Adhesive Gamin posted:And it's still not really much in practice, you get like 0.73% more condition duration, 0.5% crit, and about a single might application's worth of power and condition damage by making your viper armor Ascended instead of Exotic (going by the http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/ calculator). Upgrading your accessories from exotic to ascended is still twice the stat gain as upgrading armor. Aaah, ok. So in other words don't worry about the stat gain. So this in turn leaves me with two options. Converting my ascended poo poo to vipers because it is the easier way to get vipers as I have some ascended gear already, or just leaving it zerk or what not so I can use it for AR in fractals. That actually makes things a lot easier to figure out. I could just as well only do weapons and accessories and make it well enough into fractals as it is. So maybe I'll convert the poo poo over to vipers. Thanks guys!
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CLAM DOWN posted:To quote the next god-emperor of the united states, that's "yyyyyuuuuuuge" indeed gently caress you feel the bern
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Sprite141 posted:Aaah, ok. So in other words don't worry about the stat gain. So this in turn leaves me with two options. Converting my ascended poo poo to vipers because it is the easier way to get vipers as I have some ascended gear already, or just leaving it zerk or what not so I can use it for AR in fractals. Those numbers are not the full story. When you factor in the condi damage, you're gaining 6% more overall condi stats, not to mention the Power increase. Anyways, def keep a set of Zerk Ascended gear if you have it already and have the option to keep it. All 3 light armor classes can viably use them, of course Elementalist and Mesmer a tad more than Necromancer.
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AnacondaHL posted:Those numbers are not the full story. When you factor in the condi damage, you're gaining 6% more overall condi stats, not to mention the Power increase. how could anyone trying to escape a loot treadmill game like wow not want this
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I have a pile of ascended armor and no one's managed to kill me in months. Stuff's absolutely broken. Upgrade as quickly as you can.
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