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Originally posted by colddog04 Exactly. This guy has absolutely no clue what hes talking about as the majority of the complaint posts against GW2. Its honestly getting very, very old. MMORPG.com should step up and straight up ban members that enjoy spreading misinformation on ANY game. Viral marketing my fat ass. |
Originally posted by Geschaefer The game been out for 10 days. I'm still learning new things about my class. I don't expect "leet" or "pro" only a week and half after release. I expect as you say "clusterfudges". I have patience for fellow player learning the game along with me. It seems like you don't. |
This thread is yet another example of people who simply cannot stand it when others are happy. I cannot come to the GW2 forums here without seeing someone start yet another thread that either contains opinions stated as fact (professions are TOO balanced) or has actual misinformation (All DEs are zergs...I for one heal others and set up combos and stun mobs, etc.). If you truly dislike the game (I did not see any BUGS mentioned in this thread so don't give me the "we need constructive criticism to make the game better" argument) then why are you here at all? If I am not a fan of a particular fast food restaurant I am NEVER going to stand in their parking lot telling people why I dislike it. And then of course the usual suspects come to negatively titled threads such as this to parrot the OP with no real effort to add anything to the discussion. Surely you have better things to do. On topic: I have yet to try a dungeon but look forward to the challenge. Also, I like that I can build an Earth heavy, toughness based elementalist and it be viable. That is FUN and that's why I am here. |
Originally posted by Fendel84M Exactly. /really agrees OP -- A lot of people don't want to play games like that any more. We have played *that game* That game (and many knock offs of that game) exists already. You can go play it now -- right now -- since you can't log into GW2. And -- here's the beauty of it -- you can always log into GW2 later if you want to and it will be there with no sub! Isn't that great? In the meanwhile, you still have that game with the tank + healer + dps waiting for you with or without a sub. Isn't that great, too? |
Originally posted by 7star GW2 doesnt have, tank - healer - dps, true, they game just have DPS, and AOE, a lot of them, at the point that a Bot can do your job, people is even asking in chat thing like ¨I found a Bot here¨, and then ¨No, im not a bot¨. Sure, lot of people love the game, but them everyday people is getting bored pretty fast at some point it will affect the server WvWvW balance, and thats will be a real problem. |
Originally posted by Geschaefer I'm sorry OP but if you think its too easy then try moving out of the starting area, try soloing a Champion Spider on your own which hits like a bloomin truck and sprays poison everywhere that you have to avoid or try Explorable mode dungeons. Then tell me this game is easy. I keep seeing these posts about groups, if you don't look for a group then how on this earth are you going to group? Is there going to be some magical fairy that says GROUP WITH SAID PERSON. No, this is like SWTOR, everyone said that this was as solo game where you could solo pretty much the whole game. Well, I grouped more then I have ever done in that game becuase i LOOKED for groups, I am not going to sit in one place hoping some-one groups with me. Characters are not too balanced, its the way the game is it set out, its all about individual playstyle and how you like to deal your damage, thiefs might want to attack with pistols so they trait that way, or a guardian might want only to play support, so they spec that way. If you ever played the original then you know there was an art behind creating your buld, some things would work with others and sometimes they wouldn't work. Are you so afraid to delve into the creation of your own class? This game rewards those who experiement with different weapon sets and different traits. The way I have traited my guardian, I can take a beating but also deal out some mean support skills. It is called Imagination, learn to use it. As for your last point ... I got nothing to say to it becuase you obviously haven't played the game enough. As some-one else said I am having trouble logging out. |
Originally posted by hikaru77 Please. It's far easier to bot a game like WoW than it is to bot a game like GW2. There's a lot more movement and dodging required in GW2 as part of the base combat system than a tank-healer-DPS game requires. Standing still will get your killed. The combat is just so much more involved that it would be far more difficult to make a good bot (though easier, I suppose, if you confined the botting to areas and classes one determined easiest to handle). Heck, even when you jazz up Holy Trinity combat with gimmicks, it still gets boring quick because people master those gimmicks (and all such games seem to put the gimmicks on timers so that the whole process is quite repetitive and extremely predictable). GW2's combat simply is in a completely different league. And frankly, there are a lot of different roles in GW2. More than just 3, honestly, though how a group divies up the duties of booning, conditioning, removing enemy boons, removing conditions, heal support, combos, etc can vary a great deal. Just because all the roles do damage AND other things does not mean the only role is damage. Anymore than a combat medic is just dps because uses a gun. Every game that's ever been made will have a number of people who play it get bored fast. I've not seen any real evidence that this "boredom" is affecting the GW2 population at large. |
Originally posted by hikaru77 Proof read please. My god. I can't tell whether you are trying to state an actual point or just spitting out random words. Game does have DPS... and AOE... but a bot can be used in any MMO... so whats your point again? I guess asking and telling are 2 completely different things. Not sure why that is relevant but ok. Bots are going to or people leaving... I'm missing the whole point you're making with this statement. |
Originally posted by hikaru77 Do these bots drink potions? |
Originally posted by kaiser3282 Do this little experiment for me. Get 3 friends together, then have a 4th friend that doesn't know whats going on. One of you tackle and try to hold down the 4th friend. Have another across the room throwing things at him and have the third stand a few feet away and jump in throwing a few random shots at him and see if he goes after the guy tackling him or the guy across the room. The only way he would go for the guy across the room is if he was throwing something hard enough to forget about the guy tackling him, kinda like a dps over aggroing a mob. Hey lookie there you have a real life example of a freaking aggro situation. Did I say real life was just like video games no...all I said was there exists each roll of the Trinity in real life, obviously it is more complex but get real yeah stuff like aggro and taunting is really used in fighting. Does it work just like in video games hell no but stuff like having soldiers put down cover fire that really isn't meant to do damage so that other soliders can complete their objectives is not all from the movies. There usually isn't just some dude with a rocket launcher on his own there is other people drawing fire and covering him. Also if you think that medics don't do anything but sit on their asses until the fighting is over you are just plain wrong. |
I'm on a mobile device so I can't quote but tell me, "stratasaurus"... You've never been in the army, have you? Because what you say about real life battles using the mmorpg trinity is utterly ridiculous.
Originally posted by stratasaurus False comparison. If you get tackled by someone, then you have to get out of the tackle before you can do much of anything else. The person is physically constraining you. This is NOT the Holy Trinity, because you don't have the tank physically grappling with the boss (and on many bosses this would be absolutely impossible due to size differences or the like). Let's have one friend in full body armor insulting the Target and lightly slapping him. Another two friends pull out guns and start shooting at him. A third friend is magic and any harm done to SWAT-man is instantly removed. The target has a sword and knows it would have a tough time making it through the body armor. If the target has no experience in combat, then we'd understand him going at the guy in front of him, though we'd all recognize ignoring the two people with GUNS was stupid. It's patently obvious that he should take care of those two first or possibly magic healer man (depend on how well he can kill the shooters). And, in real life using fantasy rules, this is what we see happen. Tanks in PvP are ignored. People go after DPS first or logical priority targets. Healers are recognized as something that also needs to be killed (how much depends on the game). All enemies in Holy Trinity games are dumber than a sack of bricks though. They can't figure out that they should ignore someone that largely can't hurt them. They have minutes at least to figure this out and still can't do it -- which makes them far dumber than pretty much any player. Edit: Real life the closest thing you might have to this would be in an urban setting where someone is shouting and yelling at you and his two buddies have guns that they pull out. No one would ignore the guns -- anyone with an ounce of training would recognize they are the threat not Mr. Loudpants. |
Originally posted by Geschaefer You're not supposed to "take a beating" in GW2. You're supposed to avoid taking a beating (both as single players and as a team). There is still a trinity in the game, only it's CC, Support and DPS, and each player has to take some responsibility for all three. Actually the Trinity was ALWAYS CC, Support and DPS. Tanks were just melee crowd control, with high HP. Again, there's no intrinsic reason why there should have to be such a thing as "taking the alpha", and even if there were. there would be no intrinsic reason why the person who takes the alpha should be a melee toon. As to L2P issues, it's the responsibility of players who understand the system to get the team they're in to synergize. Talking works wonders. |
Originally posted by gurugeorge Eh, it's not really a trinity. There are more than three important components in combat and like you say everyone needs to do some of them (damage, damage avoidance) and others need to be split up (booning, removing enemy boons, conditions, removing conditions, healing). |
Originally posted by Drachasor Uhm your real life thing is wrong. Regardless of how much training you might have if you are walking down the street and someone yells at you, you turn to look at them, yes thats human nature, 2 guys with guns then pull them out and shoot you they don't stand there and wait for you to recognize they have guns and then "take care of them first", you were taunted by the dude yelling and now are dead. Anyway since you all apparently are Navy Seals or Mariners or whatever and know so much about combat I suggest you quit fracking around on the internet and get back to saving the world. |
Originally posted by stratasaurus But if the 2 guys with guns misses you, do you then punch the guy who just yelled at you or run toward the 2 guys with guns? Seriously learn to make analogies. In MMO the mobs don't die after 1 hit from the dps. |
More nonsense from Mr stratasaurus... You have a gun, if there are two people facing you, one shouting insults and the other holding a gun, if you shoot the one shouting, you are a dead idiot, just like the stupid mobs in threat based trinity games. EDITED from my PC to add: "you" here doesn't mean "stratasaurus" of course, it's a "generic" you. |
Originally posted by Psychow If he's not I will. MMOs have been stale for years, and the trinity is one of the reasons why. EDIT - Heh, just read the rest of the thread. |
Well I'm VERY happy that GW2 has no holy trinity involved because the soooo praised "grouping aspect" in which everyone had a specific role turned out to be the biggest problem in most games. Most of all in dungeons or other parts in which: - oh you don't have this skillset or this skill? Sorry we can't take you a long! - oh you don't have these stats? Sorry but we can't take you along - oh you are a tank? we already have one sorry find someone else to group with (same with healers and dps) So to be able to group up for a dungeon you needed luck to have whats needed or the luck to be wanted/needed at all or you wouldn't be able to enjoy the content. So it promoted less acceptance, partially bad blood between players, forced skillsets, blaming 24/7 like "you didn't heal properly even we were allover the place and you actually wouldn't had been able to but since you are a healer lets blame it on you cause the others are better no matter what", among many other things. In GW2 instead I run the Ascalon Catacombs once with a group of: 1 thief, 1 warrior, 1 mesmer, 1 guardian and me (elementalist). The other time we had 2 rangers, me as elementalist, 1 engineer and 1 warrior. Both times we died at some boss battles but both times we all had fun, collaborated with everything we had, learned to utilize our skills for a better approach and were successfull at the end anyway instead of failing after hours and hours only because the healer can't keep up or the tanker can't keep aggro or the dps can't kill fast enough among other things. So in my opinion the grouping in GW2 is much more accessible and much better. Most of all it doesn't take hours to put a group together because you can team up with ANY class and be successfull. As about the OPs comment that the survivalability of all the classes or their armor and damage is the same, I can only say that he definately didn't bothered to check the other classes beside his nor did he play with them. If he had then he would actually know that the armor difference plays indeed a role. As a elementalist I'm taking indeed more damage than a warrior and can die faster but its all skill dependant and healing/defensive abilities dependant aswell. If I have various shields or buffs in my skillsets while the warrior goes only for damage then its obvious that I will survive longer against a tougher opponent. Why? Because I can remove status effects immediately, can shield and heal myself with my skills while he takes everything and goes fast since doing damage alone won't help him against a tough opponent that applies all that. Most of all if its a opponent that can take you out with like 3-4 hits. I even got one shooted from enemy rangers in dungeons where warriors needed 2-3 hits to go down. Status effects are playing a big role, how bad your armor is damaged plays a role, what skills you are using play a role. How much damage one does plays a role aswell and is different because you can have a weapon that adds to the power while mine adds to healing. Additionaly you have traits that indeed make a difference aswel so balanced or not, not everyone does the same damage, nor everyone can receive as much damage as the OP says. As about grouping prior to 30: Yes you can participate in events without being in a party since everyone gets grouped when they are near, that doesn't mean that you don't heal, buff, support or rez each other, the approach is just different. Other than that it depends if you really wanna solo or not cause the game gives you both options. If you take more people with you in your story, things are harder, if you got together in a event things are harder. I even was in a event with undeads in the sylvari area that was actually hard and people died a lot. So it depends on the event and the amount of people involved as also if you wanna go do events or other activities with guilds, friends or even strangers or if you rather wanna be alone. This game gives you two things in overall: 1) freedom 2) choice Both great and refreshing in my opinion. |


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By the time he knew what hit him, the sound had killed him by mulching all of his organs and softer tissues, leaving only skin, muscle, and bone left in a horrifying mess of blood and guts. This was not the first such murder of a superhero. Yesterday a hero famous for his powered armor suit, developed with the assistance of Tony Stark, was found dead in his suit, or more accurately a green radioactive gelatinous puddle of him was found in his suit.
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For months now one villain or hero a day would turn up dead, and the populace; both normal and metahuman, were starting to get scared. Speculation abounded as to who was conducting all of these brazen murders. Fingers were pointed at Tenebrasque, people blamed the Black Hand which had recently conquered the Great Lakes region, some even claimed that Ork Kommandos had killed them. But the truth was far more dire. For intellects far more ancient and terrible than man had seen the Earth's metahumans, and deemed them a threat, and thus they dispatched a terrifying assassin.
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"When I find the bub who offed that kid..." Wolverine snarled in between gulps of Vodka, having had come here to investigate the murder of an fellow mutant. But he never got to finish his sentence, as by then Eliminator omega had levelled out it's sonic rifle and fired off a sound laser with ultrahigh frequencies and a devastating volume right into his closest eardrum, overwhelming his extremely keen senses and causing him to double over in pain as the sonic beam cut through the intervening glass like nothing.
Quickly moving down and activating it's stealth cloak to render itself invisible, it stepped into the establishment, taking out it's electrostaff which crackled to life, purple arcs surrounding it's head before the right tip smashed into Wolverine's adamantium skull to incapacitate him. "Agghhh! What the fu-" He said as he got up and unsheathed his claws, only for a devastating metallic knee to slam him in the gut and send him sprawling one again.
Looking around, wolverine assessed that his assailant was invisible, so he grabbed some coloured liquid; a startled patron's beer, and threw it forth; letting it splash his assailiant and render it partially visible. Knowing that it's stealth cloak had been foiled, Eliminator Omega returned itself to visibility. "Alright bub, I'm going to slice you to pieces and mail you in a pretty little box to your maker!" He said as he leapt forward at the Eliminator, who gracefully sidestepped the attack and brought out a speaker to let loose a basilisk signal.
"I apologize, but I do not comply." The Lone Wanderer droned in a monotoned voice as it released an unearthly wail that was fatal to humans. Every person in the bar dropped dead as their organs, eyes, and teeth ruptured in a gory explosion. Only the obscene regenerative abilities of Logan kept him alive, but he was in utter agony. "W-wha..." He garbled, choking on his own blood before he saw the glowing barrel of a fractal gun pointed at his face. "Logan Status: Terminated." The Machine said without a hint of emotion as a cone of energies unknown to human science spewed forth from the barrel, consuming the mutant and shattering him as if he were made out of glass, the splinters themselves shattering and those splinters of splinters shattering until there was nothing left to regenerate from, not even the adamantium skeleton remained.
Looking to a bar security camera that had recorded him, Eliminator Omega raised the fractal gun and fired at it, cutting off the feed right then and there, though the footage remained on the database for those who deigned to investigate. It's job done, the Eliminator walked out of the bar and reactivated the cloak. There was still much in the way of murder to be done...so many heroes to eliminate...But it did take a trophy from Logan's corpse, or more correctly, it stole his motorcycle; to appease an odd habit of taking trophies from victims. It was time to Blight the Big Apple.


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Garofalo departed WWSB in March 2013 to be the Community Resource Director with the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Sun Coast. Garofalo was very involved in the Sarasota/Bradenton community and recently was a nominee for the Lakewood Ranch Business Alliance "Ray of Sunshine" Sandies Award. She also starred as "Rizzo" in the Manatee Players production of Grease in September.
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Wed, May 17, 06 at 19:46
Not sure if this is starting to bloom but these look like little buds forming. Can anyone confirm? I have never grown this before.
Sorry Pictures are bad, I could not seem to focus at all.
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- Posted by gardeniarose z10FLA (My Page) on Thu, May 18, 06 at 11:33
I'm not familiar with wisteria but those look like buds to me. :-) |
- Posted by donnaz5 z5 NY (email@example.com) on Sat, May 27, 06 at 17:18
it's really hard to tell from the pic, but i don't think so. my buds come out green, but in a spike type of thing,they start at about an inch long, then get longer with time, but the spikes have little bumps of green all up and down them, which eventually turn into color. this is a good time of year to go to any garden center and look at their wisteria, and see if you can see buds on theirs. i'll try to get out and take a pic of my buds for you. donna |
- Posted by donnaz5 z5 NY (email@example.com) on Sat, May 27, 06 at 19:04
here is a link to my buds..the pics are blurry, i couldn't geta close shot without the blur, but you'll get the idea of how the buds are shaped, anyway. http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=8AcMmrJk0cOGIG if you click on "slideshow" you'll get the largest pics. donna |
hmm lol what is it with blurry pics and wisteria? I just took some more here is another pic. These things sure seem to be buds. They are getting bigger! |
- Posted by donnaz5 z5 NY (email@example.com) on Tue, May 30, 06 at 14:18
now they look like buds!!! yours are ahead of mine, probably the 5 zone difference..but that's how they look when they're further along. congrats!!! donna |
Just thought I would share, now its blooming! :) |
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Stinkbugs have found my tomato plants this year. I've been hosing them off in the evenings, but the numbers are increasing rather than decreasing. Ugh. Any suggestions for saving the garden? Thanks in advance. |
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Good news is that the stinkbugs were a little late arriving in our area this year. My tomatoes are pretty much done for the season, so the bugs are having trouble finding any fruit. As far as saving the rest of your tomatoes I can only suggest picking them off by hand or using a portable vacuum a couple times every day, unless you want to use some nasty pesticides. Good luck! |
Thanks. Due to my work schedule, I only have time in the evenings to work on them. Unfortunately, my plants are still loaded with fruit, so I'm not willing to let the buggers have 'em! LOL. Wish the lizards in the garden were more successful. Oddly enough, they're leaving the cherry tomatoes alone, but they are really loving my black krim, which only just started ripening, argh. |
I've found the shop vac to be amazingly successful on squash bugs even just one time a day for about a week. Should be just as effective on stink bugs on your maters. As for the cherry tomatoes, I think that is probably because cherry tomatoes really are super-powered tomatoes. Just look at how big the plants get..... |
Thanks. I'll dig up the extension cord and give it a shot. Glad I have a privacy fence, or the neighbors would think I've gone off the deep bend vacuuming my tomato plants, lol. |
- Posted by daninthedirt 8b / HZ10 Cent. TX (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 11:08
I recall seeing a marvelous YouTube post by some accomplished gardener where he totally rid himself of stinkbugs in this novel way. You bring a shop vac outside, and set it up to blow, rather than suck. Then mist your tomatoes. Grab a handful of diatomaceous earth and BLOW it onto the wet tomatoes. Just blow over your hand, making a cloud of DE. It'll stick. Goodbye stinkbugs. The advantage is that this really only needs to be done every few weeks (unless it rains hard, I guess), is inexpensive, and doesn't involve any nasty insecticides. I suppose you needs to rinse off your tomatoes before eating, but ... I've been looking forward to trying this, but I haven't yet had any problems with them this year. |
Do you know if it would affect the little lizards that live in my garden? I'm somewhat familiar w/ D.E., but have never used it myself. I do like the idea of something I only have to do in between rains and it's no problem to rinse the tomatoes first. :) |
- Posted by daninthedirt 8b / HZ10 Cent. TX (My Page) on Tue, Jul 8, 14 at 15:06
I think DE is actually used to de-mite pet lizards. See also ... http://homeguides.sfgate.com/diatomaceous-earth-kill-geckos-84148.html I would have no hesitation using it around lizards except, of course, it kills what they like to eat. |
They'll just have to hunt their prey a little further (or continue to snack on fallen tomatoes!) |
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they have been bad in our community garden for about a month now, all the farmers at the Farmers market have been fighting with them. I hate those things! Tally Ho! |
- Posted by daninthedirt 8b / HZ10 Cent. TX (My Page) on Wed, Jul 9, 14 at 23:02
OK, I found some good videos. This guy does it with a leaf blower. But if you have power nearby, a shop vac will do nicely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkrK8LvQPa8 Here's another. This guy makes a duster bottle, but what he neglects to show is that you should mist the plants first before blowing the dust. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bykxmQIBJ0 Another way to do it is to mix some of the dust in water, and put it in a spray bottle, but I'm guessing that's a great way to clog up your spray bottle. These are super cheap (a buck or two a pound), highly organic, and, I understand, very effective ways to get rid of stink bugs (leaf-footed bugs). I have not done this yet, but it looks so easy, I'm running out to get a bag this weekend. |
- Posted by daninthedirt 8b / HZ10 Cent. TX (My Page) on Sun, Jul 13, 14 at 18:28
OK, I did it. Took me fifteen minutes to string the extension cord, pull out my shop vac, mist and blow a cloud of DE on my tomatoes. One thing I had not appreciated is that a handful of DE isn't that big. It doesn't clump, so when you grab a handful, a lot of it slides through your fingers. It has the consistency of talcum powder, NOT flour. Even one small handful makes a pretty impressive white cloud. A lot of which, I'd like to believe, sticks to the plants. My tomatoes are certainly now slightly white. Solid white spots where there were drops of water. One, 4# bag of DE is probably good for 20 or so "treatments" for a few yards of tomatoes, I'm guessing. Now, I haven't seen any leaf-footed (Stink) bugs yet this season, though they were pretty bad last year. We'll see if this keeps them away. My cherries are just starting to ripen, so this is when they'll ordinarily attack. |
Dan, please keep us updated. I'd love to know how successful you are with this technique. Thanks. :) |
- Posted by 1234carlos 10 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 18, 14 at 0:05
Are there any differences between the DE used to kill algae in the swimming pools and the one sold as "insect dust"? |
- Posted by daninthedirt 8b / HZ10 Cent. TX (My Page) on Fri, Jul 18, 14 at 8:35
YES! I'm told that swimming pool grade DE is chemically processed in a way that makes it not work as well as an insecticide. You must get what is called "food grade" DE. All the gardening DE is that variety. I don't think it has anything to do with edibility, but the way it is chemically processed. |
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