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A vast amount of this game isn't "P2win", but three little words change all that(I'll add many more words to explain why): Greater Tenebrous Enchant. Go ahead and try to grind the AD to buy them for your gear. Try to kill the guy in PvP that has them when you do not, before he flattens you. Try to outperform the guy of…
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A question made from the very same short sightedness you suggest others have. What is the purpose of running dungeons solely for gear? Is that "fun"? Dungeon running in any game can be fun, but it's a chore if you're just grinding it out, over and over and over and over and over(I can do a few paragraphs of this, but you…
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The patch we just got forces need roll to be available only to classes that can use the equipment. No there isn't. Gear is affected, which means things that go with gear is affected(you're seriously going to drop a couple million on enchants for.....blues, PvP, or crafted gear?). You're going to buy dyes for the same? Buy…
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A bad idea. Bad for the game economy(no point in buying the other stuff if you can't get the gear to back it up), bad for casual players(won't get the stuff period), bad for dungeon runner(can't sell it to the non-dungeon runner). Crafting gear is junk. It has no place even being mentioned with reference to "high end".…
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I hit 60 with mine today, and actually like it. It has alarmingly more offense than I had ever been led to believe, and has a wide variety of healing options. Total healing output, however, seems problematic and as so many have mentioned, I think we're seeing how lopsided total HPS was toward Astral Shield right now.…
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The "need" button for class only was implemented...what? Three days ago? At the very least, the pont you are using(and it's not a bad one, don't get me wrong) could stand to be time tested for significantly longer than this to see if it was enough to fix the ninja loot problem before proceeding to something drastic enough…
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As much as you're absolutely right about that, it doesn't mean what you think it means. The vast majority are happily playing, and will suddenly find that they can't do what they thought they where going to do---save up and buy that tasty morsel they've been saving for. The folks that don't stay abreast of every patch note…
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Can confirm that it's a display bug, I bought green dye today, price was 80, the button and popup read 200, and it charged me 80(I only had 100 zen to begin with, no way it could have been 200). As an aside--with the lower price, I bought more dyes. Toldja price mattered:P
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I only have two 60's(cleric and GF), but the GF set is Power/Defense with +hp based, the Cleric set is Power/Recovery with....lifesteal. If the cleric set swapped the lifesteal for crit, it'd be a fantastic set. If the GF set swapped the +hp for crit/armor penetration, it'd be ok too. Both sets suffer from far, far too…
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This game has had as many unplayable moments as Diablo 3 did, but that's just a sidenote because it isn't released yet. Buying gear to do content isn't exactly "instant gratification". It's stupid to buy gear you aren't going to use. It's stupid to do ANYTHING you aren't prepared for. In the real world, that means that…
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Stupidest statement of the year, or just really stupid statement? I've cleared every scrap of content in many a game, and I'm not unique in this. Thousands of people learned how to play a decade ago, true noobs are rare as hens teeth(jerks....yeah, there's still plenty of those). Anyone who thinks everyone who might want…
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It was beta. People where constantly giving feedback that prices where too high, especially on the things that are now at more appropriate prices. If you've got buyers remorse because you wish you'd paid the lower price, you should have been giving feedback, not only in-game and on forum, but with your wallet--personally I…
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While I agree with leaver penalties(as stiff or stiffer than anything here), I personally admit that there is merit to this. The reason people do it is Astral Diamonds, much more than glory. Four matches to do the daily at 60, play or not play it's easily the fastest daily to do. On top of that, there aren't enough PvE…
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Divinity Astral Shield changes the cleric from "whoa, I should avoid red stuff and I kinda use a few potions" into stand in the red stuff, shuffle turn in circles, and make sure you keep yourself enough divinity to cast it again. In normal modes of play, it is completely overpowered and broken, the only thing that could…
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Wow didn't experiment with a deserter debuff, they implemented one and have had one in place since they did so. It is extremely successful and effective. Simply implementing such a thing goes a very long way toward protecting the innocent. Getting a deserter debuff by disconnecting sucks, but when you let yourself remember…
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This is a great idea. Except change the word "win" for "play". As in, get off the campfire and play out the match. If you leave, you pay out the entire glory reward for the entire match to both teams, plus a fine to the team you screwed. Make is "ball crushingly kick to the groin" how obvious it is that you committed to…
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If it's used right, PvP is a good tool to learn balance for PvE. Tenebrous enchants are a huge frontload of damage. Stacking them can magnify a damage frontload in such a way as to eliminate the need for a tanking class, trivialize add heavy content, and make some classes far too much better than others due to their…
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This right here is a big one, maybe the biggest. Founder pack AD is temporary--once it drains from the economy in any form of "sink", it's gone forever. Any item purchased from the wondrous bazaar(or other ripoff merchants), any appearance change, respec, or auction house fee takes the AD completely out of the game…
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Pfft, you don't need to be good for that at all. One day I killed two CW's with a full bar of guard and popping supremacy of steel.......they thought I was hitting them WAY too hard to be legit............................../facepalm.
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They really ought to put a note(in-game mail+right on the patcher) to announce that they're doing stuff like this. When I exited out and decided to hop back in, the dang launcher popped up twice and one of them started downloading something(the patch, as it turns out)! Seeing as how I'm an internet savvy sort, a window…
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Regrettably, it doesn't. Reinforcing good behavior DOES promote good behavior, on that you're certainly right. It does not, however, create good behavior out of bad behavior when the...erm..."hooligan" feels that there is no chance of success in giving a good run. I say this with the base assumption that honest folks…
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I don't think you're ever going to see the clerics percentage based heals get a benefit from gear. The utility from these is one of the only properly scaling pet abilities in the game---a 20% heal is just as useful at 60 as it was at 20. It's also about the only companion spell that rivals a player power. The best bet with…
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Perhaps it is merely coincidental, but the sellsword(GWF) is probably the worst companion in the game. Imagine a Phirechicken, only with even less damage and survivability, and nothing to do outside of melee range!
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I agree with your sentiment, but there is one very important thing to remember: AD comes solely from people making it in game. All the AD changing hands on the AH, all the AD buying zen, and all the AD disappearing into the ether of respecs and outfit customization. Creating AD in game is capped at 24k per person, per…
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I'd agree that most of the GF is pretty good, and the threat mechanic in the game is pretty bad. I've seen things stay on like glue, and I've seen things fall off for no reason at all. Mark, no mark, threat added attacks, etc. Simply put, as was mentioned, the aggro table is broken. It becomes even more obvious when you…
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I have to agree, the pricing and strategy just don't work very well, at least for me. I'm usually a pretty heavy player, more interested in stats and mechanics than appearance. Appearance DOES matter to a guy like me, though. In fact, it matters a great deal. There is a good reason that I've never successfully leveled a…
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I've noticed the same thing. The second I take a few strides on a horse, the dang thing hops up and over, then through, my head, and I promptly wear it as a bib until I dismount. Bibs don't seem terribly heroic---I've got a beard to catch dropped food, after all!
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Like...profitable with a regular playerbase that's showing growth(I do realize that it wasn't always this way, and mentioned as much)? Profitable enough to develop and release an expansion for, even? I realize it isn't pulling down WoW numbers, but neither is, nor has ever been, any other game in history. How high to I…
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I've been playing so I know that it IS true. There simply isn't all that much to buy with gold. First mount, maybe a few coins on trivial low level gear early on, level 15 capped companions, some crafting items, and potions. Off the top of my head, that's not a summary---it's the entire list of gold currency based items.…
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It has been stated over and over again, but that doesn't make it true. AD has a direct conversion rate to zen. Zen is a directly cash purchased currency. Ergo, AD has a cash equivalent. Every single AD spent on something could have been spent on something else. 100k spent on a respec could have been a pair of keys, or…