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My guild has no reason to play together. ( somewhat un-sociable game )
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Originally posted by Karteli
What 'big portion' is that?
i have seen a couple of people complaining that they need a reason to talk or group with friends. I seriously doubt that there is such a big population of people that think they need to be rewarded for playing with their friends or in this case 'friends'.
more like special cases imo.
Seriously , if your friends only want to hang out with you or you only want to hang out with your friends just to benefit of of them or you feel the need to be taken at gunpoint to spent time with them then you do not really have any friends to begin with , how social is that !?
The issue is moot.
My guild has no reason to play together. ( somewhat un-sociable game )
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Originally posted by delete5230
If your 100 man guild needs a reason like a quest to talk to each other or and make a group with each other and does not talk or group together otherwise then i would say it is your guild that is not very sociable.
Could be just me here but pffff.....
i remember when i ran a legion 1,5 years ago , also 100 man with a stable core. We used to sit on TS with each other and hardly play even at times , we never needed the game to give us a reason. Build a proper guild ! lol
What is the point of this game?
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Originally posted by Cothor
PvE ing the best gear together means only your gear is better then another player and not you as a player.
How meaningless is that?
Not to mention giving you a false sense of skillzzzZ
Pressing 1 to oneshot a player in PvP with you uber gear earned by PvE'ing makes you a better player? I think if your oponent manages to survive for longer then 30 second that he has more to show for then you tbh.
No real instruction to combo fields
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Originally posted by bunnyhopper
If thats your answer you might want to re-read my post.
for one i myself dont have problems with combos(but then again i followed this game and details for quite some time) but i do see that they go unused by most players in the game outside of the obvious accidental use. I keep telling people about it everyday i play mostly in spvp , their response ususally is "owh thats cool" but thats it i do not even see them to try and use it so the "thats cool" basically translates to a "whatever, gimmick" There is simply no emphasis made on it in the game. << the point
Im also getting a bit tired telling people about it and trying to convince people to use it who are on my team. I could care less wether they use it or not in PvE.
This is not a fps game where you get a gun and simply start using it for obvious reasons. People are not used to seeing it in MMORPG's and so far most only seem to regard it has a proc.
No real instruction to combo fields
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Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Again the problem is not that they are hard to understand. If you go out assuming that people are not able to understand this system you are simply being arrogant. The problem is that the significance of them or the fact that they are even there is not being made known outside of a wiki.
As Blitz already poited out people usually do not go to a wiki to use as a game manual. Anet has posted about how important they are in dungeons and seeing as how many are having issues in those i really dont get why they do not make the feature more prominent to new players or older players who did not see the importance in them for that matter.
No real instruction to combo fields
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It is a simple system but one that is explained and conveyed badly. People see it ingame ,check out the tooltips and try it out for a bit most will only come as far as knowing that you can uses others their combo field and vice versa but since it is so vaguely described and not explained or pushed ingame i think what is happening now is that most people automaticaly just write it of as a gimmick. Not surprisingly.
Sure it is in a wiki but common now.
No real instruction to combo fields
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Originally posted by mazut
This could be true and would be inline with the exploration stance the game takes but if you hover over the skills that note about combo fields it is still very very vague. (combo fields btw are not only used in partnership with other players) On my ele for instance in the tooltips it either says combo field on one skills ,ok clear enough but on all my other skills that can potentially compliment my combofield skill it only says "blast" yet the one i use most gives me a shield bubble.
I guess you can still argue that it comes down to exploring and finding out but on other combo'snothing happens when i try them out and i suspect that those combofields are not meant to be executed by just yourself but only in partnership with another player. There does not seem to be any consistency there which leads to people not using them and end up running into trouble in dungeons for instance.
I think Anet should post up some vids signifying the importance of these combo fields at least.
Things said by arenanet that are happening (with source)
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Originally posted by Geeves
Indeed a smooth launch does not have to mean a ' perfect launch'. Never in the history of MMO's has 1 been released in perfect condition. I think people are taking things out of context and stop being realistic to themselves like the dude on the first page with his "but..but..they said when its ready..." well it was ready ,it just was not perfect. :3
The worst thing that happened that during pre-release there were about 6 hours of login issues. Things like balancing issues have been mostly adressed during the beta's but to be realistic there simply has to be a cut off point were it is said "fine this is more then good enough to launch with" and to be honest the game came out with very well balanced PvP as it is. Yet there are people out here saying that this particular part of the game is so badly balanced that it is a joke (ridiculous statement of course), comments like these alone are the sole reason that there never will be a MMO or any other MMplayer game released in perfect condition or 'ready'.
MMO's can never be ready as long as there are people like this around.
Things said by arenanet that are happening (with source)
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Originally posted by Tardcore
WoW had entire zones being closed off due to bugs shortly after launch.
GW2 - The coolest thing ever in this game so far IMHO
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People are SelfEntitled to their immersionz and lack ofhumorz..
where is Hardcore?
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Raiding with a lot of people is just that, a lot of people and a lot of people that are being carried by a few tanks and healers. i really do not see how this is considered hardcore. The only thing i would consider hardcore is being able to lose what you have worked/played for.
Eve-online is what i call hardcore because even spacecarebears are not safe on their 'safe' space and everyone runs the risk of losing what they are currently sitting on, and everyone does at some point. No themepark PvE game has ever struk me as hardcore bar the few that have open world pvp its the only thing i can think of. The rest is just tag along gameplay.
So I have to ask...
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Originally posted by Zinzan
It is currently not possible to modify the accounts password. The hacker is just as limited in this and thus they will have to settle for a loggin war. Ussually he would have been locked out of his account because the the hacker changed his password.
Either way OP petition support and tell the you want a new PW and why,
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Originally posted by Odinthedark1
Thats a good one. You want your money back because "You forgot about something" and need the money for something else.... for the moment....
You want you money back and next to that you dont want to lose the acount and want arenanet to hold on to your acount for you until you decide to give it back to arenanet and re-open your most likely well played acount for you and continue where you left off. The fact that you ar so afraid of losing the acount tells me that you invested considerable time into the acount too.
I would love to see you buy a car ,come back weeks later after having been on your roadtrip and tell the dealer you need your money back because as it turns out you forgot about something and oh , if he can hold on to the car for you for whenever you decide to still buy it.
What happened to this ArenaNet?
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Originally posted by jondifool
Not sure what they are on about.a-net never said that there will be permanent changes. On the contrary even since the first time they came out with info abuot he game they pointed out that they wanted to show consequence through the DE's but at the same time they pointed out how it would be impossible to retain permant effects of DE's, which is totally logical of course.
People who now claim and believe that A-net promised permanent effects caused by DE's have down-syndrome.
[POLL] Teleporting or Mounts / Flight Paths
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I have disliked mounts ever since i started playing MMO's that had them. They are mostly for the e-penor crowd and you see them constantly parked in a spot where everybody can see them sitting on it as if to say " look at me being cool on my cool mount" a mount everyone sees 50 times a day btw but since they just got it... but hey no biggy i guess.
Next to that i always feel like i am in some sort of happy disney movie with my super special rare (suposedly) creature friend stting on those stupd things lol.Riding mounts is boring and having to mount and dismount all the time is anoying.
Yet there is practically speaking no way to avoid them since everyone uses them and making each group or guildie or w/w wait for 15 minutes everytime just because i dont want to use them is ridiculous.
I was very happy not having mounts in TWS my toon just earned srpint upgrades which btw were just as effective if not more eeffective since i did not need to mount and unmount anything or hotkey 20 diferent mounts for 20 different occasions. The whole mount idea is so old and stale and useless imo and t me really feels as if i am playing with "my little pony's". against ym will.
Good riddance :)
And trade post is down again...
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Originally posted by stevebmbsqd
They did infact launch with the tradepost. It got taken ofline the next day or so or the day after that because a issue cropped up. Testing ina closed controlled enviroment is never the same and will never yield the same results or show certain issues that a live run does. The AH is a very complex part of any mmo and i also do not remember 1 MMO that had a flawless AH up and running from day one.
Look at the more recent release of TWS which got its AH the second month in. It was a total non functioning mess but it was up as promised and cause even more frustration and anger because people where actually losing items and money because of this failing system. Better to concede and take it down.
The fact that they tried and actually had it up and running on day 1 was surprising to me tbh even though i already heard that they planned on it. I was equally unsurprised when they had to take it down.
They tried
Concluded that it was in everyones best interest to take it down
Considering the reasoning i see no reason to kick and scream like a good self entitlted customer.
Guild Wars 2 contradicts itself, and is left standing in a weird place.
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Originally posted by Medicated03
There isn't even 1 thing in there that holds up.
.You can drop $500 on gems
.You can use it to lvl to 80 with crafting
.You will miss key designs for the armor that you are aiming for so since you wont get those that way so say goodbey to that brilliant idea
.You will buy the L80 armor from the shop with stats that are the same as any basic fresh L80 toon and gets for free (its intended for remodeling for a reason.)
.You walk into WvWvW
.You get you ass handed to you on you $500 toon with n00b 80 stats and no traits skills.
Followed by :
.You going back to te very first zone
.Start doing your skillpoints
And of course for that $500 you missed the entire game itself and turned it into a very expensive crafting grind that netted you less result then if you had actually played , experienced and possibly *gosh enjoyed playing the game.
You talk the talk ,now learn to walk.
Why GW2 will ultimately fail
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Originally posted by TheScavenger
"The game initially sold around 242,000 copies, while the number of active subscriptions (those who play longer than the free month included when buying the game) was estimated to be around 130,000"
i dont think vanguard was as well received to begin with. But yet it took 5 years before vanguard went F2P. Not a great example to prove your point.
ANET commentary on dungeon difficulty
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Originally posted by dariuszp
Not sure why some people keep hammering on the "profesional gametesters" line because it doesnt exist. Game testers hardly ever get paid outside of some expenses and are just gamers like anyone else that apllied to be selected to be a game tester. It boggles me that a few here believe that there is a proffesional on call game team or something for every game :)
Its basically a volunteers job that in some cases lands another job.
PvP balance issues solved
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Originally posted by wartyxwt
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No really, see the point is that there will never be perfect balance and as long as there is none there will be massive QQ becasue someone just got his ass handed to him while playing on his ranger against a guardian for instance.
Sometimes the best way to fight is to avoid it . In others people just dont know how to counter or to avoid followed by a forum visit "wtf this is IMBAlanced!!!!".
Witouth imbalance it will not even be fun to start with.
I Pvp with 5 classes and still end up top player most of the time on my necro a class with just about the lowest dps out there. There is no massive imbalance.


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Concerns with Influencing Your Kids towards Street Bikes?
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I read a few responses, skimmed a few responses.
My question to OP is:
If you're concerned about them riding on the street, why would you try to influence them to ride on the street? Did you just choose the wrong wording or am I misinterpreting what you're saying?
My personal opinion:
Each and every child is different. I have 2 boys: 21 and 16. They couldn't be anymore different from each other in personalities. There's no way in the world I'd trust the 21 y/o on a motorcycle on the street without any kind of training at all whatsoever. Even if he had training, I'd still want lots and lots of mentoring with him.
Donovan is the 16 y/o. Some of you probably know of him. He started riding when he was 4. Started racing hare scrambles when he was 7 (did 2 years of GNCC in addition to our local VA series). Got into supermoto when he was 9ish. He's probably got more seat time than a lot of people on this forum. He started riding with us on the street around age 6 as a passenger. He has natural talent. Heck, how many people would let an 11 y/o kid hop on their DRZ440SM at the sumo track for a few laps? Or how about a KTM 525? There was no way we were going to be hypocrites and tell him he could not ride on the street. As a matter of fact, just the opposite. Hubby is looking forward to a cross country trip with his son.
He just became legally licensed in Sept. And yes, he did take the BRC even though we knew he knew how to ride (insurance discount). When he was on a learner's for the street (both bike and car), yes, he made a couple of minor judgement mistakes (no accidents). But he learned from them. He knows the importance of gear... of GOOD gear. This is an image that I will never forget for the rest of my life... Donovan at 12, gear cut off and strapped to a backboard after a wreck where he lost feeling in his lower body.
The story:
I just ask that he keep me informed of his whereabouts when out on his V-Strom 650 (which, btw, is the 2nd street bike he's purchased because he's been employed since he was 14 and has worked hard to buy a bike).
TLDR: I will not give up riding and I will not be a hypocrite. He wants to ride. I trust him to be a good rider. Yes, I will worry. I will always worry. The only thing I ask is that when he's on the bike and I or his dad are not with him, that he texts me when he gets where he's going and when he leaves where he's at.
Good luck with whatever decision you make.
PS, he took my CBR1000RR this morning to run an errand for me, that's how trustworthy he is. Progressive allowed us to say he's got 12 years of experience. I am truly truly shocked... our total insurance (full coverage) for a CBR1kRR, V-Strom 650 and BMW R12RT with a 16 y/o boy on the policy comes to a whopping $1006 a year.
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Pakistani court orders PM's arrest amid huge rally
He led an estimated 30,000 supporters Tuesday in a second day of protests in Islamabad to press for the removal of the government, which he criticized as corrupt and incompetent. Political leaders condemned his demands as unconstitutional.
It was unclear whether the Supreme Court's order and Qadri's rally were connected. But some speculated it was a scripted plan by the chief justice and the cleric to strike at their opponents in the government, with the support of the army.
"There is a connection, and it is very obvious. The boots are behind it," Pakistani human rights activist Asma Jehangir said, referring to the military.
Qadri's message has galvanized many Pakistanis who say the government has brought them only misery. But critics fear Qadri is bent on derailing the country's upcoming elections at the behest of army by pushing for a military-backed caretaker administration - allegations denied by the cleric.
Those concerns could intensify following a fiery speech he delivered to protesters, condemning the country's politicians as corrupt thieves and lavishing praise on both the Supreme Court and the military.
He said only two institutions in Pakistan, the judiciary and the armed forces, were "performing their duties to fulfill the needs of the people."
The cleric spoke from inside a bulletproof vehicle parked several hundred meters (yards) from parliament. He faced hundreds of police in riot gear who formed a human barrier against thousands of demonstrators packed into the main avenue running through Islamabad. Many waved green and white Pakistani flags and cheered as Qadri spoke.
The protest has been largely peaceful since demonstrators set off from Lahore on Sunday, but underlying tension was evident early Tuesday when police and protesters clashed hours after Qadri arrived in Islamabad and addressed his supporters. Demonstrators threw rocks at a vehicle, while others held up bullet casings and an empty tear gas canister.
Qadri called on his supporters to stay in the streets until the national and provincial governments were dissolved. Many demonstrators, who slept in the street Monday night under warm blankets to ward off the cold, said they would remain as long as the cleric asks.
"This system has rotted. It has to change," said 29-year-old Iftikhar Ahmad, who traveled to Islamabad from the central city of Sargodha. "I am going to stay here ... even if I die."
Associated Press writers Munir Ahmed, Asif Shahzad, Rebecca Santana and Zarar Khan contributed to this report.
The Associated Press