Humfly

DennisChr, on 09 March 2013 - 04:21 PM, said:

Lame excuse, they should fix the game. I can only presume it involves sending ticks of condition damage to the client every second for every stack they applied to provide the waterfall of numbers on the screen. I would rather the stacks were combined to produce a single number per second or single number per condition type per second anyway. The idea of just throwing away client damage because it is too much work to tell the client about it is farcical.

Sans, on 09 March 2013 - 09:22 PM, said:

If people want Arah armor somone is going to have to run Arah to get it and if people hate running Arah it will be in short supply and very expensive. If people want to run CoF 1 (till it gets nerfed) 100 times instead of running Arah 3 times I say let them. I idea that dungeon armor is some kind of status symbol is weak, "look at me I grinded this dungeon 20 times" is just lol especially when the supposedly greatest status symbols in the game (Legendaries) can be bought on the TP for gold.

The dungeon token system is a fail, it makes running dungeons feel like a job with guaranteed pay at the end of each shift. Dungeon specific items should be random drops and able to be dropped by trash so people wouldn't want to skip whatever they can. The problem with random drops is it takes an age and/or luck to get what you want and people end up with a stash full of things they can't use like the ascended rings from fractals. That problem is entirely caused by account binding, without it people could sell the stuff they don't want and buy the stuff they do with the proceeds.

Veurr, on 23 February 2013 - 03:49 AM, said:

I think 99% of people looked at the time and effort required to craft a legendary and that it was only a skin and said no thanks even without the ridiculous cost or lottery winning luck required to get a precursor which later became apparent. So no I don't think many care.

Legendaries are a confused illogical mess.

Lunacy Polish, on 14 February 2013 - 05:58 PM, said:

They have quadrupled in price pretty much the same as every limited supply item desired by high level characters. More gold inflation than anything else.

IMO ectos have an important function and are working as intended. They cause rares and exotics to the salvaged and removed from the game world, they cause people to stuff greens and low level rares into the forge to get rares which can be salvaged for ecto.

Without ectos the TP would be full of greens, rares and unpopular exotics at not much more than vendor price. Ecto price sets a minimum price for rares and materials (especially T5 fine materials) which can be crafted into something from which ecto can be salvaged.

Ectos have a profound effect on the gameworld economy and I believe it is by design.

The forge's (or Lion's arch garbage disposal facility) ability to eat four mouthfuls of garbage and occasionally spit out something less garbage has a similar and equally profound effect

Jetjordan, on 11 February 2013 - 12:58 AM, said:

You think I should run jumping puzzles instead because the pirate ship gets better the 2nd, 10th, 100th? time you see it? I have done Fawcetts's thing (whatever it is called) a couple of times and that's it the content has been consumed.

Dungeon paths would be the same except they are balanced and designed to provide a small challenge and consume the time of people that have seen them 100 times which makes the first few times through slow, painful, and unenjoyable. They don't get better the 10th time through just armed with knowledge from previous runs they get less bad and consume less time.